David Fleetham / Dusky / Long-finned / Pinnate spadefish (Platax pinnatus), Philippines.

Linda Pitkin / Mixed-species school of Blackfin Sweetlips, Indonesian Sweetlips (Diagramma melanacrum), and Pinnate Batfish or Spadefish (Platax pinnatus) Dampier Strait, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, March 20...

Linda Pitkin / School of Blackfin sweetlips (Diagramma melanacrum), and Pinnate batfish (Platax pinnatus), sheltering on lower reef by large sea fan (gorgonian coral). Dampier Strait, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indones...

Linda Pitkin / Pinnate batfish (Platax pinnatus), with soft corals including Leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.), in mangroves (Rhizophora sp.). Mangrove roots encrusted with tunicates. Yanggefo Island, Raja Ampat, West...

Linda Pitkin / Pinnate batfish (Platax pinnatus), on coral reef beneath mangroves (Rhizophora sp.). Mangrove roots encrusted with tunicates (including Didemnum sp.), and soft coral (Dendronephthya sp.). Yanggefo Isl...

Pascal Kobeh / Shaded / Long-finned batfish (Platax pinnatus) Palau. Philippine Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Small school of Shaded batfish (Platax pinnatus) resting under Table coral (Acropora) Manado, Indonesia. Sulawesi Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Small school of Shaded batfish (Platax pinnatus) on a coral reef, Manado, Indonesia. Sulawesi Sea.

Juergen Freund / Juvenile Pinnate batfish (Platax pinnatus) Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

Michele Westmorland / Juvenile Pinnate spadefish / batfish {Platax pinnatus} Narutu Island near Kitava, Trobriands, Papua New Guinea.

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Large mixed school of Longfin spadefish (Platax teira) and Pinnate spadefish (Platax pinnata). Andaman Sea, Thailand

Nature Production / Dusky / Pinnatus Batfish {Platax pinnatus} juvenile, with black body outlined with yellow stripe, Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan

Nature Production / Dusky / Pinnatus Batfish / Spadefish {Platax pinnatus} juvenile, Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan, September

David Hall / Pinnate batfish (Platax pinnatus) juvenile, portrait, mimicking the appearance of a toxic flatworm to deter predators, Ambon, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean.

David Hall / Pinnate batfish (Platax pinnatus) juvenile, portrait, mimicking the appearance of a toxic flatworm to deter predators, Ambon, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean.

Linda Pitkin / Pinnate batfish, spadefish (Platax pinnatus), juvenile Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.