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Arrowhead Batfish

Malthopsis parva Ho, Roberts & Shao 2013

Diagnostic Description

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This species is distinguished by the following characters: ventral surface fully naked and interspaces of principal bucklers on dorsal surface lacking dermal spinules: D 5-6 (mainly 6); pectoral-fin rays 13; blunt subopercular buckler with a stout anterior-directed spinelet usually present; rostral spine directed rather more upward than forward; relatively few and loosely arranged bucklers; all bucklers are blunt; appressed anal fin reaching caudal fin base; it is the smallest species of the genus reaching 51.1 mm SL in adults (Ref. 92977).
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Morphology

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 56
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Biology

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Maximum depth from Ref. 106682.
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