Armoured flathead
Encyclopedia
The armoured flathead or deepsea flathead, Hoplichthys haswelli, is a ghost flathead
of the family
Hoplichthyidae, found in the southwest Pacific Ocean
, at depths between 140 and 700 m. Its length is up to 43 cm.
Ghost flathead
Hoplichthyidae is a family of scorpaeniform fishes native to the Indo-Pacific Oceans, commonly known as ghost flatheads. There is a single genus, Hoplichthys....
of the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Hoplichthyidae, found in the southwest Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
, at depths between 140 and 700 m. Its length is up to 43 cm.