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Satyrichthys laticeps
Satyrichthys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Peristediinae, the armoured gurnards or armored searobins. These fishes are found in the Indo-Pacific region.
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Description
Satyrichthys armoured gurnards have no teeth in their upper jaws, the sides of the head are smooth. The rear scutes in the lower lateral rows are not joined to the ventral midline. They have no branched barbels on the lower jaw apart from the rearmost lip and chin barbels. The second dorsal fin and the anal fin contain less than 20 soft rays. The smallest of these fishes is S. longiceps which has a maximum published standard length of 15.5 cm (6.1 in) while the largest is S. laticeps which has a maximum published standard length of 48.7 cm (19.2 in).
Wikipedia: “Characteristics”
Range & habitat
Satyrichthys armoured gurnards occur in the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Ocean.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 619136.