Bathysauroides gigas

Bathysauroides gigas
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Aulopiformes
Family: Bathysauroididae
Tomoyasu Sato & Nakabo, 2002
Genus: Bathysauroides
C. C. Baldwin & G. D. Johnson, 1996
Species: B. gigas
Binomial name
Bathysauroides gigas
(Kamohara, 1952)

Bathysauroides gigas, the pale deepsea lizardfish, is the only species in the family Bathysauroididae. This species is found in the western Pacific Ocean where it is so far only known from the waters around Japan and Australia. This species grows to 29 cm (11 in) in standard length.

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