Scientific Name	Malthopsis kobayashii			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	Tanaka, 1916	Depth	100 - 300M
Chinese	密刺海蝠魚	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	蝙蝠魚科	Economic Fish	No
Family	F233　Ogcocephalidae	Edible Fish	No	Chinese In Mainland China
Max Length	10 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	棘茄魚
Distribution in World	India Ocean to West Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	South、South West、North East
Habitats	Deep Sea、Benthos、Coastal	Holotype Locality	off Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Synonyms	Malthopsis luteus
Reference	Ho & Shao, 2010, Journal of the National Taiwan Museum, 63(3):1-18. Ho & Koeda, 2019, Zootaxa, 4702(1):73-86.
Specimen List
Common Name	Kobayashi's seabat
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body depressed, disk triangular. Rostrum pointed, upturned, with long 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 cover with numerous dermal spinules between backlers. Subopercular spines well-developed, none directed forward. Caudal slightly rounded; longest anal fin ray not beyond base of caudal. Dorsal without 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	Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific ocean form south Africa, Philippines, to Indonisia and Japan. It is a common species occurring in the eastern and southwestern Taiwan off Yilan to Pingtung.
Utility	No commercial value.