Biology:Black lizardfish

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Black lizardfish
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Aulopiformes
Family: Bathysauropsidae
Genus: Bathysauropsis
Species:
B. gracilis
Binomial name
Bathysauropsis gracilis
(Günther, 1878)

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.


References

  • "Bathysauropsis gracilis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=644763. Retrieved 18 April 2006. 
  • Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Bathysauropsis gracilis" in 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

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