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Flathead fish

Platycephalidae

Description:

A flathead is one of a number of small to medium fish species with notably flat heads, distributed in membership across various genera of the family Platycephalidae. Many species are found in the Indo-Pacific, especially most parts of Australia where they are popular sport and table fish. They inhabit estuaries and the open ocean.

Habitat:

Sandy bottom where they can hide under the sand with the head or even only their eyes exposed.

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2 Comments

AlbertKang
AlbertKang 10 years ago

You have good imagination, @Chun ;)

ChunXingWong
ChunXingWong 10 years ago

Without it's name and descriptions, I may think that this is a frog !

AlbertKang
Spotted by
AlbertKang

Batangas, Philippines

Spotted on Mar 31, 2013
Submitted on Mar 31, 2014

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