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Family Ephippidae - Spadefishes, batfishes and scats
Order:	Perciformes
Class:	Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
No. of Genera:	7
No. of Species:	20
Environment:	Fresh:  No     Brackish:  Yes     Marine:  Yes
Aquarium:	some
First Fossil Record:	lower  Tertiary,   lower  Eocene             Ref.:      Berg, L.S..1958
Remark:	Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific; marine, rarely brackish. Anal fin with 3 spines. Compressed laterally and deep-bodied. Mouth small; vomer or palatines toothless; comblike series of large blunt gill rakers on first epibranchial. Omnivores of algae and small invertebrates. Thought to be pelagic spawners. Juveniles of Platax species are popular and unproblematic aquarium species, but grow very fast.
Etymology:	Latin, ephippium = that is for putting on a horse, similar in shape to a depression of the sphenoid bone; 1841 ( Ref. 45335).
Division:	Marine
Reproductive guild:	nonguarders
Main Ref.:	Nelson, J.S..1994
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