Bathylutichthys taranetzi

Bathylutichthys taranetzi is a fish in the genus Bathylutichthys. It is a deep-sea fish with a standard length of about 10 cm (3.9 in), and has been found exclusively in the vicinity of the South Georgia Island in the Southern Ocean at depths of 1,650 m (5,410 ft).^[1]

Bathylutichthys taranetzi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Suborder:	Cottoidei
Family:	Bathylutichthyidae
Genus:	Bathylutichthys
Species:	B. taranetzi
Binomial name
Bathylutichthys taranetzi Balushkin & Voskoboinikova, 1990

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of the Soviet ichthyologist Anatoly Yakovlevich Taranetz (1910-1941).^[2]