{"scientificNameAuthorship":"Ho & Shao, 2010","RecordModifiedOn":"2022-06-21","CAAB_code":"37212040","phylum":"Chordata","Notes":"In the Australian region this species is known from northern WA, northern Qld to southern NSW and the Norfolk Ridge south of Norfolk I in 228-500m (Ho & Last 2021).","habitat":"Slope Demersal (200-2000m)<br>","NameVerifiedSource":"","Parent_Id":37212906,"scientificName":"Malthopsis gigas","kingdom":"Animalia","order":"Lophiiformes","otherVernacularNames":"Giant triangular batfish<Fishbase current ex Japan>","Reference":"Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter, 2021. Review of the batfish genus Malthopsis from Australia (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of five new species\r\n , <i>Bulletin of Marine Science</i>, Vol. 97: 165-218. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5343&#x25;2Fbms.2020.0037\">doi:10.5343&#x25;2Fbms.2020.0037</a>","vernacularName":"[a seabat]","ChildCodes":"","RecordCreatedOn":"2004-01-21","scientificNameID_WoRMS":"","family":"Ogcocephalidae","standardName":"","class":"Actinopterygii","scientificNameID_AFD":"","CAAB_status":"Valid"}