Orbicular Batfish
Platax orbicularis
Also known as: Circular Batfish, Circular Spadefish, Copper Batfish, Dusky Batfish, Narrow-banded Batfish, Orbic Batfish, Orbic Platax, Orbiculate Batfish, Round Batfish, Rounded Batfish, Sicklefish
- Circular Batfish
- Circular Spadefish
- Copper Batfish
- Dusky Batfish
- Narrow-banded Batfish
- Orbic Batfish
- Orbic Platax
- Orbiculate Batfish
- Round Batfish
- Rounded Batfish
- Sicklefish
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Overview
Found singly or in small to large schools, over silty, shallow protected reefs, also in deeper waters, where they can be found around shipwrecks, channels, deep lagoons, and seaward reefs.
Batfish have a flattened profile, juvenile batfish are extremely tall finned, but as they grow they become more rounded.
Often Inquisitive of divers.
How to identify
Habitat & where to find it
Where the adult stage lives, and where its photos were taken.
- Range · Indo-Pacific, Western Central Atlantic
- Country only · 25
Found singly or in small to large schools, over silty, shallow protected reefs, also in deeper waters, where they can be found around shipwrecks, channels, deep lagoons, and seaward reefs.
Adult photos 25
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Spadefishes-Batfishes-Scats (Ephippidae)
