Biology:Bassogigas

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Bassogigas
Bassogigas gillii.jpg
Bassogigas gillii
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Ophidiiformes
Family: Ophidiidae
Subfamily: Neobythitinae
Genus: Bassogigas
Goode & Bean, 1896
Type species
Bassogigas gillii
Goode & Bean, 1896[1]

Bassogigas is a genus of cusk eel from the subfamily Neobythitinae, part of the family Ophidiidae. The generic name "Bassogigas" comes from a combination of two Latin words: bassus, which means "deep" and gigas which means "giant".[2] The species are found in the Indo-Pacific and western Atlantic Ocean.[3]

Species

The following two species are contained within the genus Bassogigas:[4]

  • Bassogigas gillii Goode & Bean, 1896
  • Bassogigas walkeri Nielsen & Møller, 2011 – (Walker's cusk eel)

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Bassogigas". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=9135. 
  2. "Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families CARAPIDAE and OPHIDIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 21 March 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/ophidiiformes1/. 
  3. Nielsen, J.G.; P.R. Møller (2011). "Revision of the bathyal cusk-eels of the genus Bassogigas (Ophidiidae) with description of a new species from off Guam, west Pacific Ocean". Journal of Fish Biology 78 (3): 783–795. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02892.x. PMID 21366572.  Abstract
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). Species of Bassogigas in FishBase. February 2006 version.

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