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Circular Spadefish

Platax orbicularis

Spotting Image 1

Notes:

Spotted this batfish on a night dive at Dayang Beach. I guess it was sleeping -- it was going around in circles but also getting attracted to my light. I was at about 18m depth.

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XXD17
XXD17 11 years ago
Orbicular batfish
Platax orbicularis


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Noah Ranger
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Blogie 11 years ago

Thanks for the ID suggestion, Xiaoxuan. But, are you 100% sure that this is Platax orbicularis? I'm looking at photos of that species and some of them don't seem to be the same species as this one...

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Davao Del Norte, Philippines

Spotted on Jul 26, 2012
Submitted on Jul 29, 2012

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