abstract:The pancake batfish, Halieutichthys aculeatus, belongs to the family Ogcocephalidae of batfishes. Their distributrition includes western Atlantic, North Carolina, northern Gulf of Mexico to northern South America.
A batfishasflat as apancakewas dredged up from the oil-slick watersintheGulf of Mexico. A new species of antelopewasfound on saleataWest African bushmeatmarket.