The black lizardfish or deep-water greeneye (Bathysauropsis gracilis) is a grinner of the genus Bathysauropsis, found around the world in the southern oceans, at depths between 1,500 and 3,000 m. Its length is from 20 to 30 cm.
Black lizardfish | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Aulopiformes |
Family: | Bathysauropsidae |
Genus: | Bathysauropsis |
Species: | B. gracilis
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Binomial name | |
Bathysauropsis gracilis (Günther, 1878)
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References
edit- "Bathysauropsis gracilis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 April 2006.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bathysauropsis gracilis". FishBase. April 2012 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8