Bassozetus
| Bassozetus | |
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| Bassozetus compressus | |
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| Bassozetus taenia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Ophidiiformes |
| Family: | Ophidiidae |
| Subfamily: | Neobythitinae |
| Genus: | Bassozetus Gill, 1883 |
| Type species | |
| Bassozetus normalis Gill, 1883[1]
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Bassozetus is a genus of cusk-eels found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.[2]
Species[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ 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.
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