Roughback Batfish

Exceptionally angular, craggy body contours and large, prominent bucklers. Very small width of mouth relative to head depth 2-2.8; Narrow interorbital width to head depth 3.6-6.6. Rostrum length to disk margin length 3.2-5.1. Distal ends of pectorals with fleshy ventral pads. Vertebrae usually 19. Lateral line scale count: subopercular usually 5 or 6 (4-8); cheek usually 8 (7-9). Lateral line scale count usually 17 (Ref. 40824).

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 4; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 4; Vertebrae: 18 - 20

Inhabits offshore water, usually from 54-125 m depth.

Ogcocephalus parvus, the roughback batfish, is a species of batfish found along the coast of the western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina in the United States to Brazil. This species grows to a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) TL.

Western Atlantic: North Carolina and northern Gulf of Mexico in USA to Brazil; absent from Bahamas

benthic