The bartail flathead (Platycephalus indicus), also called bar-tailed flathead, bartail blenny, gobi, Indian flathead, or Indo-Pacific flathead,[3] is the type species for the fish genus Platycephalus.[4] It is found in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.[3] The species has been recorded in the Mediterranean, having invaded as a Lessepsian migrant through the Suez Canal.[5] However, although a number of specimens were caught in trawls in the late 1970s[6] then none were caught until 2011, when one was taken off Lebanon.[7] Following the revision of genus Platycephalus in Australia, Australian specimens previously assigned to this species are now considered a separate species, Platycephalus australis.[8]