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Andaman Adventure Sports, Railay / Tonsai, near Ao Nang, Krabi, Thailand

Species' English Name	teira batfish
Species' Latin Name	platax teira
Max Length	70.0 cm
Environment	reef-associated; amphidromous, marine; depth range - 20 m
Climate	tropical; 30°N - 24°S
Distribution	Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to Papua New Guinea, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Australia.
Morphology	Ocular band of adult specimens uniformly dark. Yellowish silvery or dusky, with a black (or dusky) bar through eye and another dark bar from dorsal-fin origin across rear edge of operculum and pectoral-fin base to belly, where it usually encloses a black blotch, with another smaller black vertical streak often present at origin of anal fin. Median fins dusky yellow, with black margins posteriorly. Pelvic fins yellow, dusky yellow or blackish. Body orbicular and strongly compressed, its depth more than twice length of head and 0.9 to 1.2 times SL. Head length 2.7 to 3.5 times in SL. Large adults (above 35 cm standard length) with bony hump from top of head to interorbital region, the front head profile almost vertical. Interorbital width 42 to 50% head length. Jaws with bands of slender, flattened, tricuspid teeth, the middle cusp slightly longer than lateral cusps. Vomer with a few teeth, but none on palatines. Five pores on each side of lower jaw. Preopercle smooth. Opercle without spines

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Andaman Sky, Co., Ltd, 23/8 Moo 2, Ao Nang, Thailand

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