Bathysauroides gigas, Pale deepsea lizardfish

Bathysauroides gigas (Kamohara, 1952)

Pale deepsea lizardfish
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Aulopiformes (Grinners) > Bathysauroididae (Largescale deep-sea lizardfishes)
Etymology: Bathysauroides: Greek, bathys = deep + Greek, saurodes = similar to a lizard (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Gigas was a giant in Greek mythology, the child of Uranus and Gaea. The name is applied to taxa that are giants of their kind. (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; demersal. Temperate

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Western Pacific: Tosa Bay, Japan and Australia (Ref. 7300).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 29.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 559)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

A benthic species (Ref. 75154) which inhabits the continental slope (Ref. 7300, 75154).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Paxton, J.R. and V.H. Niem, 1999. Ipnopidae: tripod fishes. p. 1923-1924. In K.E. Carpenter and V.H. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 3. Batoid fishes, chimaeras and bony fishes. Part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). FAO, Rome. (Ref. 39810)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 12 October 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | OneZoom | Open Tree of Life | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | TreeBase | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index
(Ref. 82804) 		PD50 = 1.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level
(Ref. 69278) 		4.1   ±0.7 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability
(Ref. 59153) 		Low to moderate vulnerability (25 of 100). 🛈
Nutrients
(Ref. 124155) 		Calcium = 36.4 [15.1, 95.2] mg/100g; Iron = 0.404 [0.165, 0.763] mg/100g; Protein = 16.1 [13.1, 18.5] %; Omega3 = 0.657 [0.193, 1.582] g/100g; Selenium = 17.8 [7.4, 39.3] μg/100g; VitaminA = 23.3 [6.1, 85.6] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.447 [0.291, 0.657] mg/100g (wet weight);