429:-like scales and with conical spines, the lower surface of the body has a complete covering of pointed, bony scales and the underside of the tail has a dense covering of small spines, apart from a few conical spines on its midline. The upper surface of the body is colored pale brown to coppery red, marked with orange red and yellow-orange blotches, mostly to the rear of the eyes. There is a band of dark, pale margined spots running from the eye to the gill opening. The pectoral fins are pale, marked with a pattern of dark spots, , creating a reticulated pattern on its basal two-thirds. The sides of disk are marked a lattice of pale lines on a dark background. Smaller fishes have yellow pectoral fins and a yellow
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using the esca as a lure to attract prey to within striking distance of its mouth. Its diet is made up of crustaceans, mollusks, worms and small fishes. If alarmed the polka-dot batfish will flatten its wide, squat body to the substrate or it retreatsusing its paired fins like legs to find better
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has a flattened head, although this is higher than the rest of the triangular disk, with a pointed snout, thinner and longer in juveniles and becoming a short and upwardly directed knob in large adults. The head of adults are very large. The eyes are laterally positioned on the head. The
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are small, the dorsal fin is covered in skin and is on the tail while the anal fin is fleshy and under the tail. The upper surface of the body is covered in large
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is classified within the "Eastern
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Western Atlantic Ocean where it occurs from
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Western Atlantic Ocean and the southern
735:"Species: Ogcocephalus cubifrons, Polka-dot Batfish"
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498:concealment. This species has been found to be a
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289:in 1836 by the Scottish
1015:Fish described in 1836
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491:Ogcocephalus cubifrons
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386:Ogcocephalus cubifrons
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773:Ogcocephalus cubiceps
715:. Christopher Scharpf
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652:John Wiley & Sons
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462:Apalachicola, Florida
312:of Canada. The genus
223:Ogcocephalus radiatus
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648:Fishes of the World
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42:Conservation status
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215:Malthaea cubifrons
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591:Catalog of Fishes
287:Lophius cubifrons
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