Largescale Deepsea Lizardfishes
Bathysauroididae
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.
1 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85631.