Bathysauroides gigas

Bathysauroides gigas ( Gr. " Bathys " = deep; " saurodes " = lizard ) is a deep-sea fish from the order of lizard fish relatives ( Aulopiformes ). The species lives in the western Pacific on the basis of the continental slopes and has been found in Japan and Australia.

Features

Bathysauroides gigas reaches a maximum length of 29 cm. His body is slender and nearly cylindrical in cross section, almost round and flattened slightly laterally only in the posterior section. The eyes are large and sit dorsolateral. The pupils are elliptical. The only short dorsal fin is in the front half of the body just above the pelvic fins. The caudal fin is split.

System

Bathysauroides gigas was described in 1952 by Mr. Kamohara as Bathysaurops gigas and placed in the family of compound eyes fish ( Ipnopidae ). In 1996 the monotypic genus Bathysauroides was for the kind erected in 2002 and the family Bathysauroididae, which is also monotypic.

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