Blue-spotted flathead

The Blue-spotted flathead lives in the demersal, brackish, marine, depth range 40 - 100 m environment.

The new mark to beat for Eastern Blue-Spotted flathead on bait is 54cm taken by peterS south of Garie using striped tuna. More

The blue-spotted flathead has a single large blotch below five horizontal bars edged with white on the caudal fin. The southern sand flathead has one to two blotches below smaller blotches. More

Common names

Blue-spotted flathead in English
Bluespotted flathead in English
Drift flathead in English
Eastern blue-spot flathead in English
Long-nosed flathead in English
Red flathead in English
Red spotted flathead in English
redspotted flathead in English
redspotted flathead in Unknown
Sand flathead in English
Yank in English
青点鲬 in Mandarin Chinese
青點鯒 in Mandarin Chinese

Order : Scorpaeniformes
Family : Platycephalidae
Genus : Platycephalus
Species : Platycephalus caeruleopunctatus
Authority : McCulloch, 1922