Species: Ogcocephalus pumilus, Dwarf Batfish

Ogcocephalus pumilus Bradbury, 1980

Dwarf Batfish

Head depressed; disc triangular; snout pointed, rostrum very long (32-65% of length of disc edge) and thin, horizontal to body; fish-lure with 3 fleshy points, in a small cavity under horn; eyes on sides of head; mouth relatively small; spine at lower rear corner of operculum blunt or little developed; gill rakers are oval plates covered with small teeth; gill openings small, behind upper base of pectoral fin; dorsal and anal fins small, at rear of body; pectoral and pelvic fins limb-like; pectorals completely separated from body, skin on underside of rays thin & without fleshy pads, fin membrane thin and translucent, 11-12 rays; skin covered dorsal fin on tail, small fleshy anal fin, 3-4 rays, under tail; top of body with large bucklers as well as conical spines; underside of body completely covered with pointed, bony scales underside of tail densely covered with small prickles, sometimes with a few conical spines along midline; 4-7 (usually 6) lateral line scales under operculum, 8-9 on cheek.

Pale blue-grey above, tips of bucklers paler; underside paler than top and suffused with orange; rostrum and outer 1/3 of pectorals and tail fin deep orange.

Reaches 8.3 cm.

Habitat soft bottoms.

Depth range: 35-348 m.

The southern Bahamas to Brazil.