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Bathysauridae
Description
Family Bathysauridae
Bathysaurus ferox Günther, 1878 —Deep-sea lizardfish (Fig. 13)
1 specimen of 31 cm TL was caught at a depth of 1,685 m. Habitat and Distribution: bathydemersal, depth range 600–3,500 m, usually 1,000–2,500 m. Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific. In the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from Iceland to Guinea and also off South Africa. Vulnerability: DD (IUCN), MHV (FishBase).
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Published as part of Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), pp. 293-333 in Zootaxa 4067 (3) on page 311, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256670Files
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Bathysauridae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Aulopiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
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- family