Ephippidae - Batfishes

Use the table to access images and fact sheets of the ephippid fishes on the site. The family includes the batfishes and spadefishes.

Juvenile Roundface Batfish

Juvenile Roundface Batfish
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Drepane longimana Banded Sicklefish
Platax pinnatus Longfin Batfish
Platax teira Roundface Batfish


Mark McGrouther , Collection Manager, Ichthyology
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, Ephippidae, Batfishes, Spadefishes,

2 comments

Mark McGrouther - 4.05 PM, 05 May 2011

Hi Brewster,

Thank you for letting us know about your batfish sighting at Parsley Bay.  Interesting that your sighting was at the other side of the harbour from the Clifton Gardens sightings. It would be interesting to know if your fish was part of the aggregation that was seen at Clifton Gardens or if juvenile batfish have entered Sydney Harbour on several different occasions recently.

Brewster - 1.05 PM, 05 May 2011
I observed a batfish at Parsley Bay (swimming along the shark net)in eastern Sydney Harbour on about the 28th of April 2011. Newspaper article on other sightings in Sydney Harbour, at: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/tropical-nemo-and-his-mates-saved-from-a-slow-cold-death/story-e6freuzi-1226050110728

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