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Spadefishes
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Spadefishes

Platax

Platax is a genus of Indo-Pacific, reef-associated fish belonging to the family Ephippidae. There are currently five known extant species generally accepted to belong to the genus. They are one of the fish taxa commonly known as "batfish".

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species

Longfin Batfish

speciesPlatax teira

Round Batfish

speciesPlatax orbicularis

Dusky Batfish

speciesPlatax pinnatus

Golden Spadefish

speciesPlatax boersii

Humphead Batfish

speciesPlatax batavianus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 69860.