Tentacled flathead

Tentacled flathead
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Platycephalidae
Genus: Papilloculiceps
Fowler & Steinitz, 1956
Species:
P. longiceps
Binomial name
Papilloculiceps longiceps
(G. Cuvier, 1829)
Synonyms[2]
  • Platycephalus longiceps Cuvier, 1829
  • Platycephalus tentaculatus Rüppell, 1838
  • Rogadius tentaculatus (Rüppell, 1838)
  • Platycephalus grandidieri Sauvage, 1873
  • Papilloculiceps grandidieri (Sauvage, 1873)
  • Platycephalus papilloculus Fowler, 1935

The tentacled flathead (Papilloculiceps longiceps), also known as the Indian Ocean crocodilefish, Madagascar flathead or longhead flathead, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Platycephalidae, the flatheads. This species is in the western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, having invaded as a Lessepsian migrant through the Suez Canal. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Papilloculiceps.

  1. ^ Motomura, H.; Matsuura, K. & Khan, M. (2018). "Papilloculiceps longiceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T114173325A114173342. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T114173325A114173342.en. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Papilloculiceps longiceps". FishBase. February 2022 version.