Black lizardfish

The black lizardfish or deep-water greeneye (Bathysauropsis gracilis) is a grinner of the genus Bathysauropsis, found around the world in the southern oceans, at depths between 1,500 and 3,000 m. Its length is from 20 to 30 cm.

Black lizardfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Aulopiformes
Family:	Bathysauropsidae
Genus:	Bathysauropsis
Species:	B. gracilis
Binomial name
Bathysauropsis gracilis (Günther, 1878)

References

• "Bathysauropsis gracilis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 April 2006.
• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bathysauropsis gracilis". FishBase. April 2012 version.
• Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8