Bathysauroides

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.^[2]

Bathysauroides
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Superorder:	Cyclosquamata
Order:	Aulopiformes
Family:	Bathysauroididae Sato & Nakabo, 2002
Genus:	Bathysauroides Baldwin & Johnson, 1996
Species:	B. gigas
Binomial name
Bathysauroides gigas (Kamohara, 1952)