Scientific Name	Malthopsis mitrigera   Pronounce			by: Hsuan-Ching Ho
Author	Gilbert & Cramer, 1897	Depth	300 - 650M
Chinese	鈎棘海蝠魚	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	蝙蝠魚科	Economic Fish	No
Family	F233　Ogcocephalidae	Edible Fish	No	Chinese In Mainland China	鈎棘海蝠魚
Max Length	7.5 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	棘茄魚
Distribution in World	India Ocean to West Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	South West、North East
Habitats	Deep Sea、Benthos	Holotype Locality	Off Hawaiian Islands, 21°N, 157°W, depth 295-310 fathoms
Synonyms	Malthopsis jordani, Malthopsis mitriger, Malthopsis triangularis
Reference	Ho, H. C. & K. T. Shao, 2010. A review of Malthopsis jordani Gilbert, 1905, with description of a new batfish from the Indo-Pacific Ocean(Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae). Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. A, Suppl. 4, pp. 9–19  Gilbert, C. H. etc. 1897 Nakabo T. 2002 Nakabo T. 2002 Ho, H.C. etc. 2008 Hsuan-Ching Ho etc. 2010
Specimen List	ASIZP0064420. ASIZP0064529. ASIZP0064586. ASIZP0064597. ASIZP0064605. ASIZP0066869. ASIZP0067352. ASIZP0067355. ASIZP0067847. ASIZP0067870. ASIZP0067911. ASIZP0068178. ASIZP0068180. ASIZP0068195. ASIZP0068196. ASIZP0068310. ASIZP0068390. ASIZP0080599. ASIZP0802289. ASIZP0802291. ASIZP0803608. ASIZP0803631. ASIZP0803672. ASIZP0803939. ASIZP0803941. ASIZP0803956. ASIZP0803957. ASIZP0913608. ASIZP0913631. ASIZP0913672. ASIZP0913939. ASIZP0913941. ASIZP0913956. ASIZP0913957.
Common Name	Batfish
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body depressed, disk triangular; rostrum small, upturned, tuberculer blunt; 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, those on ventral surface relative small; ventral surface smoothly, without dermal spinules between backlers; subopercular spines well-developed, two directed forward; caudal slightly rounded; dorsal surface without black ring-like markings; dorsal 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-Pacific ocean fron South Africa, Philippines to Japan and Hawaii. It is a common species occuring in northeast Taiwan off Suao.
Utility	No commercial value.