Scientific Name	Malthopsis annulifera   Pronounce			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	Tanaka, 1908	Depth	90 - 590M
Chinese	環紋海蝠魚	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	蝙蝠魚科	Economic Fish	No
Family	F233　Ogcocephalidae	Edible Fish	No	Chinese In Mainland China	環紋海蝠魚
Max Length	9 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	棘茄魚、牛尾頭章(臺東)
Distribution in World	Australia	Distribution in Taiwan	South、North East、Nan Sa IS.
Habitats	Deep Sea、Benthos、Coastal	Holotype Locality	Misaki, Sagami Sea, Japan
Synonyms	Malthopsis ocellata
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)；Fishes of Japan(Nakabo, 2002)；中國動物誌-鮟鱇目(蘇等, 2002)  Tanaka, S. 1908 沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993 Nakabo T. 2002 Nakabo T. 2002
Specimen List	ASIZP0055227. ASIZP0056026. ASIZP0058053. ASIZP0060225. ASIZP0060510. ASIZP0062946. ASIZP0063530. ASIZP0064588. ASIZP0064592. ASIZP0066018. ASIZP0066463. ASIZP0067851. ASIZP0068181. ASIZP0068182. ASIZP0068442. ASIZP0070156. ASIZP0070189. ASIZP0070309. ASIZP0070310. ASIZP0071253. ASIZP0072180. ASIZP0074600. ASIZP0080340. ASIZP0800698. ASIZP0801916. ASIZP0803612. ASIZP0803942. ASIZP0803943. ASIZP0910698. ASIZP0911916. ASIZP0913612. ASIZP0913942. ASIZP0913943. FRIP21689. NMMBP01723. NMMBP05285. NMMBP05286. ...List all 50 records...
Barcode	2008-03-25,Kui-Ching Hsu,CO1,100% 2012-01-08,柯慧玲,CO1,100%
Common Name	Batfish
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body depressed, disk triangular; rostrum small, upturned, with horn-shaped tubercular; illicial cavity narrow with a trianglur opeoing; mouth small, overhung by rostrum; illicium short; esca a single dorsal bulb; tooth villiform band on jaws, vomer, palatines and tongue; gill 2, holobranchs on arches 2 and 3; membranes connecting pectoral pedicels with trunk; skin tough, cover with large bony bucklers; ventral surface smoothly, without dermal spinules between backlers; subopercular spines well-developed, one directed forward; caudal slightly rounded; longest anal fin ray not beyond base of caudal; dorsal with 3 pairs or more of black ring-like markings; body yellowish-brown, ventral pale.
habitats	Habits in the marine bathydemersal. They are awkward, walking on the bottom on their large armlike pectoral fins and smaller pelvic fins.
Distribution	Restricted to the Western Pacific forn coast of southern Japan to Philippines. It is a common species occurring in the eastern and southwestern Taiwan off Yilan to Pingtun.
Utility	No commercial value.