Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

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Two-spine triangular batfish
No photo available
Photo: David Starr Jordan / Barton Warren Evermann / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain (view on Wikimedia Commons)Historical illustration. Source: Jordan, David Starr; Evermann, Barton Warren (1905) Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna, Bulletin of the United State; Commons file: FMIB 42594 Malthopsis mitriger Gilbert & Cramer; from the type.jpeg

Two-spine triangular batfish

Malthopsis mitrigera

Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).

English
Two-spine triangular batfish
Scientific
Malthopsis mitrigera
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Deep-water fish
Family
Ogcocephalidae (batfishes)
Maximum size
Up to about 8 cm (standard length)
Depth and habitat
Deep-water, on or near the bottom, recorded from 300 to 650 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2019

Description

A tiny triangular batfish with a flattened, armoured body and short limb-like fins, reaching about 8 cm. It lives on deep bottoms at roughly 300 to 650 m.

Sources

Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.