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Kumococius rodericensis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Platycephalidae

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Actinopterygii

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Scorpaeniformes

Genus
  
Kumococius Matsubara & Ochiai, 1955

Similar
  
Scorpaeniformes, Elates ransonnettii, Thysanophrys, Cociella

Kumococius rodericensis, the spiny flathead, is a species of flathead native to the Indian Ocean and the tropical western Pacific Ocean where it can be found on sandy or muddy bottoms of the continental shelf at depths of from 6 to 75 metres (20 to 246 ft). This species grows to a length of 25 centimetres (9.8 in) TL and is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries. This species is the only known member of its genus.

References

Kumococius rodericensis Wikipedia