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Kobayashi'S Triangular Batfish

Malthopsis kobayashii Tanaka 1916

Diagnostic Description

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This species is characterized by the following: subopercular buckler dull, with few blunt spinelets at its tip; ventral surface is covered with minute prickles; pointed rostrum, directed rather forward than upward; principal bucklers on dorsal surface relatively small and flattened, interspace fully covered by small bucklers and prickles (Ref. 86633).
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Morphology

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 4 - 6; Analsoft rays: 4
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