Scientific Name	Coelophrys micropa			No picture was not be chosen to represent this species.
Author	(Alcock, 1891)	Depth	395 - 1880M
Chinese	小足腔蝠魚	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	蝙蝠魚科	Economic Fish	No
Family	F233　Ogcocephalidae	Edible Fish	No	Chinese In Mainland China	小足腔蝠魚
Max Length		Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	扁頭棘茄魚
Distribution in World	India Ocean to Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	South
Habitats	Ocean、Deep Sea	Holotype Locality	Bay of Bengal
Synonyms	Coelophrys micropus, Dibranchus micropus, Halieutopsis micropa, Halieutopsis micropus
Reference	Ho & Shao, 2007.  J. Wood-Mason etc. 1891
Specimen List	ASIZP0074605.
Common Name
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Dorsal fin rays 5; anal fin rays 4; pectoral fin rays 15; pelvic fin rays 5; caudal fin rays 9. Body subtriangular and somewhat globose; tail shorter than disk length; interorbit width broad; illicial cavity large; rostrum flat and broad, slightly project beyond jaws, without median spinal rostrum; esca with a pair of rounded ventral lobes and a flat dorsal flap; pelvic fin reduced in size; teeth villiform band on jaws; skin translucent and loose, those covering entire body with numerous simple dermal spinules, those on disk edge slightly lager than on body and bifurcated; gill 2, gill filaments present on second and third branchial arches; subopercular spines reduced; body gray to black in color; pectoral and pelvic fins darker than body.
habitats	Biology little know.
Distribution	Widely distributed throughout the Indo-west Pacific Ocena from South africa to Philippines and Japan. It is no common spiecies only occurring in Taiwan off Tong-sa.
Utility	Harmless.