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Black lizardfish

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ290449 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

References

"Bathysauropsis gracilis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 April 2006.

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bathysauropsis gracilis". FishBase. April 2012 version.

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“Black lizardfish” enters the record as species of fish. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Black, lizardfish and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 3, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q290449. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Black lizardfish” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.