Ratabulus

Ratabulus is a genus of marine, demersal ray-finned fish belonging to the family Platycephalidae. These fishes are native to the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

==Taxonomy== Ratabulus was first formally proposed as a monotypic genus in 1924 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Carl Leavitt Hubbs with Thysanophrys megacephalus, which had been described in 1917 by Shigeho Tanaka from a type specimen obtained at a fish market in Tokyo, designated as its type species. This genus is classified within the family Playtcephalidae, the flatheads which the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies within the suborder Platycephaloidei in the order Scorpaeniformes.