🐟Red-lipped batfish
The red-lipped batfish or Galápagos batfish is a fish of unusual morphology found around the Galápagos Islands and off Ecuador at depths of 3 to 76 m. Red-lipped batfish are closely related to rosy-lipped batfish, which are found near Cocos Island off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. This fish is mainly known for its bright red lips. Batfish are not good swimmers; they use their highly adapted pectoral, pelvic and anal fins to "walk" on the ocean floor. When the batfish reaches maturity, its dorsal fin becomes a single spine-like projection.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.2 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Red-lipped batfish
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.2 mmaximum recordedFishBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female0.21 mFishBasev25.04
Trophic level3.44FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.44 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Red-lipped batfish yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderLophiiformes
- ›familyOgcocephalidae
- ›genusOgcocephalus
- ›speciesOgcocephalus darwini
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderLophiiformes
- suborderOgcocephalioidei
- familyOgcocephalidae
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderLophiiformes
- suborderOgcocephalioidei
- familyOgcocephalidae
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