The fishes of the family Platycephalidae are restricted (excluding one species each in the Atlanctic and Mediterranean, see Knapp, 1981) to the Indo-Pacific, represented by a total of about 70 valid species. A personal of the literature on the taxonomy shows that excepting a few instances (e.g. matsubara and Ochiai, 1955; De Beaufort and Briggs, 1962; Schultz, 1966; Murthy, 1982; Knapp 1973, 1987), attention has not been paid either to examine adequate number of ...
