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GBIF·5201395speciesAnimalia52 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderScorpaeniformes
  4. ›familyPlatycephalidae
  5. ›genusPlatycephalus
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Platycephalus cultellatus

Platycephalus cultellatus Richardson, 1846

Also calledPeixe-crocodilo-de-Hong-Kong (por) · zploštělec kantonský (ces) · ปลาหางควายอ่าวไทย (tha)

First described in: Richardson, J. (1846). Report on the ichthyology of the seas of China and Japan. <em>Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 15th meeting [1845]:.</em> 187-320.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5201395.