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What is a batfish?

What is a batfish? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several anglerfish of the family Ogcocephalidae
  2. Any of several spade-shaped, laterally compressed, reef-dwelling tropical fish of the genus Platax.
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I played lookout for my shutter-happy dive buddy, spotting cowries and posing with batfish as I did my safety stop.
It is a relative easy, shallow dive with a maximum depth of about 45 ft, with nice hard coral formation and friendly batfish and moray eels.
At times we were engulfed by batfish, sweetlips, fusiliers, snappers and rainbow runners.
It is here that divers may encounter anything from schooling batfish, barracudas to a sailfish, or even the whale shark.
On a typical dive you will see octopus, batfish, turtles, groupers, jacks, morays, barracuda, horse-eye jacks, angel-fish and rays.
When a small fish is tempted and approaches, the batfish opens its mouth and quickly sucks in the unsuspecting victim.

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