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Platycephalidae
Olive-tailed flathead
Rogadius asper
Body covered in inverted spines
Olive-tailed flathead is known around Indo-West Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 20.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Platycephalidae
- Genus
- Rogadius
- Maximum length
- 20.5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: Broome (Australia), the Arafura Sea (Ref. 9819 ) and northwards. Also known from southern Japan (Ref. 559 ), Papua New Guinea (Ref. 6192 ), Philippines and Taiwan (Ref. 7087 ) and India (Ref. 45255 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

