Bassozetus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ophidiaria
Ordo: Ophidiiformes

Familia: Ophidiidae
Subfamilia: Neobythitinae
Genus: Bassozetus
Species: B. compressus – B. elongatus – B. galatheae – B. glutinosus – B. levistomatus – B. mozambiquensis – B. multispinis – B. nasus – B. normalis – B. oncerocephalus – B. robustus – B. taenia – B. werneri – B. zenkevitchi
Name

Bassozetus Gill, 1883

Type species: [[]]

References

Links

Bassozetus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Bassozetus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Bassozetus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Bassozetus is a genus of cusk-eels found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.[2]
Species

There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus:

Bassozetus compressus (Günther, 1878) (Abyssal assfish) [3]
Bassozetus galatheae J. G. Nielsen & Merrett, 2000 (Galathea assfish)
Bassozetus glutinosus (Alcock, 1890) (Glutin assfish)
Bassozetus levistomatus Machida, 1989
Bassozetus mozambiquensis Tomiyama, Takami & A. Fukui, 2016 (Mozambique assfish) [4]
Bassozetus multispinis Shcherbachev, 1980
Bassozetus nasus Garman, 1899
Bassozetus normalis Gill, 1883
Bassozetus oncerocephalus (Vaillant, 1888)
Bassozetus robustus H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 (Robust assfish)
Bassozetus taenia (Günther, 1887)
Bassozetus werneri J. G. Nielsen & Merrett, 2000
Bassozetus zenkevitchi Rass (ru), 1955

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Bassozetus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Bassozetus in FishBase. October 2016 version.
Tomiyama, S., Takami, M. & Fukui, A. (2015): Redescription of Bassozetus compressus (Günther 1878), a senior synonym of Bassozetus elongatus Smith and Radcliffe 1913 (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae). Ichthyological Research, 63 (2): 218-226.
Tomiyama, S., Takami, M. & Fukui, A. (2016): A new deepwater assfish, Bassozetus mozambiquensis sp. nov. (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae), from the western Indian Ocean. Ichthyological Research, 64 (1): 13–17.