Bathysauropsis

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
Section: Aulopa
Ordo: Aulopiformes
Subordo: Chlorophthalmoidei
Familia: Bathysauropsidae
Genus: Bathysauropsis
Species: B. gigas – B. gracilis – B. malayanus
Name

Bathysauropsis Regan, 1911
References

Sato, T., & T. Nakabo. 2002. Paraulopidae and Paraulopus, a new family and genus of aulopiform fishes with revised relationships within the order. Ichthyological Research. 49(1):25–46.
Shcherbachev, N.P. & Pakhorukov, N.P. 2002. On diagnostic features and distribution of species of mesobenthic genus Bathysauropsis (Aulopiformes, Ipnopidae). Voprosy Ikhtiologii 42(4): 564–566
Joseph S. Nelson: Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2006. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.

Bathysauropsis is the only genus in the lizard greeneye family, Bathysauropsidae.
Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

Bathysauropsis gracilis (Günther, 1878) (black lizardfish)
Bathysauropsis malayanus (Fowler, 1938)

References
Wikispecies has information related to Bathysauropsis.

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Bathysauropsis in FishBase. April 2012 version.