Bathypterois
| Bathypterois | |
|---|---|
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| Mediterranean Spiderfish (B. dubius) | |
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| Tripodfish (B. grallator) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Aulopiformes |
| Family: | Ipnopidae |
| Genus: | Bathypterois Günther, 1878 |
Bathypterois is a genus of deepsea tripod fishes.
Abyssal spiderfish, B. longipes
B. quadrifilis
Species
There are currently 19 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Bathypterois andriashevi Sulak & Shcherbachev, 1988
- Bathypterois atricolor Alcock, 1896 (Attenuated spider fish)
- Bathypterois bigelowi Mead, 1958
- Bathypterois dubius Vaillant, 1888 (Mediterranean spiderfish)
- Bathypterois filiferus Gilchrist, 1906
- Bathypterois grallator (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1886) (Tripod fish)
- Bathypterois guentheri Alcock, 1889 (Tribute spiderfish)
- Bathypterois insularum Alcock, 1892
- Bathypterois longicauda Günther, 1878
- Bathypterois longifilis Günther, 1878 (Feeler fish)
- Bathypterois longipes Günther, 1878 (Abyssal spiderfish)
- Bathypterois oddi Sulak, 1977
- Bathypterois parini Shcherbachev & Sulak, 1988
- Bathypterois pectinatus Mead, 1959
- Bathypterois perceptor Sulak, 1977
- Bathypterois phenax A. E. Parr, 1928 (Blackfin spiderfish)
- Bathypterois quadrifilis Günther, 1878
- Bathypterois ventralis Garman, 1899 (Ventrad spiderfish)
- Bathypterois viridensis (Roule, 1916)
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Bathypterois in FishBase. April 2012 version.
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