| Bathysauroides gigas | |
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Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1) | |
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| Family: | Bathysauroididae Tomoyasu Sato & Nakabo, 2002 |
| Genus: | Bathysauroides C. C. Baldwin & G. D. Johnson, 1996 |
| Species: | B. gigas |
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| 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.
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Bathysauroides gigas" in FishBase. April 2012 version.
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