Tall, flattened, silver-and-black fish that hang over wrecks and drop-offs in small groups. Juveniles look nothing like the adults: they are extremely tall, dark, and drift alone imitating a leaf or a flatworm.
Adults are curious and will follow a diver for a whole dive, which makes them one of the easier large fish to photograph and one of the harder to get away from when photographing something else.
The juveniles are worth looking for on a shallow muck site. A very tall dark fish lying on its side in the surge, drifting rather than swimming, is a juvenile batfish rather than a piece of leaf, and it will hold that act until it is touched.
This group is the Platax batfish. The Ogcocephalus batfishes of the Caribbean are a completely different animal, related to the frogfish, and are filed in Other fish.
Every one has a page. They are shown as a list rather than as pictures because nothing has been photographed or logged for them yet, and a species with nothing behind it should not sit in front of one that has.
How many of the 3 carry a record at each destination. A species usually carries several, so these do not add up to 3.
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