''Ogcocephalus parvus'', the roughback batfish, is a species of batfish found along the coast of the western

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. This species grows to a length of TL.

References

* * M. G. Bradbury, ''The genera of batfishes (family Ogcocephalidae)'', Copeia, Vol. 1967, No. 2 (June 5, 1967), pp. 399–422. Ogcocephalidae Fish of the Atlantic Ocean Taxa named by William Harding Longley Taxa named by Samuel Frederick Hildebrand Fish described in 1940 {{Lophiiformes-stub