Orangefreckled Flathead

materials_examined

Holotype. CSIRO H 4031 - 79, 262 mm SL, north of Cape Lambert, Western Australia (18 ° 57 ’ S, 117 ° 14 ’ E), 248 m, 30 August 1995, FRV Southern Surveyor. Paratypes. 16 specimens (140 - 266 mm SL), from northwestern Australia. AMS I. 21621 - 006, 206 mm SL, northwest shelf, Western Australia (11 ° 49 ' S, 124 ° 17 ' E), 195 – 200 m, 10 June 1979; AMS I. 22805 - 013, 3: 177 – 188 mm SL, 170 km north of Port Hedland, Western Australia (18 ° 28 ' S, 118 ° 15 ' E), 150 – 156 m, 28 March 1982, FRV Soela; AMS I. 22807 - 023, 3: 188 – 227 mm SL, 175 km north of Port Hedland, Western Australia (18 ° 32 ' S, 118 ° 17 ' E), 200 – 204 m, 2 April 1982, FRV Soela; AMS I. 22828 - 012, 3: 248 – 265 mm SL, 190 km north of Port Hedland, Western Australia (19 ° 01 ' S, 117 ° 12 ' E), 200 – 202 m, 14 April 1982, FRV Soela; CSIRO CA 3624 (voucher of Sainsbury et al., 1985), 233 mm SL, northwest of Nichol Bay, Western Australia (19 ° 15 ' S, 116 ° 40 ' E), 172 m, 25 January 1983, FRV Soela; CSIRO CA 4091, 229 mm SL, north of Bathurst Island, Arafura Sea, Northern Territory (10 ° 02 ' S, 130 ° 01 ' E), 216 m, 8 July 1980; CSIRO H 1035 - 23, 251 mm SL, north of Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia (19

Taxonomic revision of the genus Ratabulus (Teleostei: Platycephalidae), with descriptions of two new species from Australia