Cymbacephalus

Cymbacephalus
Crocodile Fish (C. beauforti)
Northern Rock Flathead (C. staigeri)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scorpaeniformes
Family:	Platycephalidae
Genus:	Cymbacephalus Fowler, 1938

Cymbacephalus is a genus of flatheads native to the western Pacific Ocean.

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Cymbacephalus beauforti (L. W. Knapp, 1973)	Crocodile fish	tropical waters of the center of the Indo-West Pacific
	Cymbacephalus bosschei (Bleeker, 1860)	Small-eyed flathead	Western Central Pacific: Philippines, Borneo, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, the Arafura Sea and Western Australia to Darwin and Brisbane, Australia.
	Cymbacephalus nematophthalmus (Günther, 1860)	Fringe-eyed flathead	Western Central Pacific: Philippines, Borneo, Singapore, Celebes, Papua New Guinea, New Georgia and Australia from the Northwest Shelf to Brisbane.
	Cymbacephalus staigeri (Castelnau, 1875)	Northern rock flathead	Western Central Pacific: Christmas Island to northern Queensland, Gulf of Carpentaria, Darwin, Shark Bay, Australia and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.