Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain)
Author
Bañon, Rafael
Author
Arronte, Juan Carlos
Author
Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina
Author
Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria
Author
Punzon, Antonio
Author
Serrano, Alberto
text
Zootaxa
2016
4067
3
293
333
journal article
51152
10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2
3d180ea5-d34a-4291-8b4d-50171eaa279a
1175-5326
256670
50B7E074-F212-4193-BFB9-84A1D0A0E03C
Family
Bathysauridae
Bathysaurus ferox
Günther, 1878
—Deep-sea lizardfish (
Fig. 13
)
1 specimen
of
31 cm
TL was caught at a depth of
1,685 m
. Habitat and Distribution: bathydemersal, depth range
600–3,500 m
, usually
1,000–2,500 m
. Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific. In the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from
Iceland
to
Guinea
and also off
South Africa
. Vulnerability: DD (IUCN), MHV (FishBase).