Bathylutichthys

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Bathylutichthys
Conservation status: Unknown
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Scorpaeniformes
Family:Bathylutichthyidae
Genus:Bathylutichthys
Species: B. taranetzi
Binomial name
Bathylutichthys taranetzi
Balushkin & Voskoboinikova, 1990

Bathylutichthys taranetzi is the only member of the fish family Bathylutichthyidae and the only species in the Bathylutichthys genus. It is a deep sea fish with a length of about 10 cm, and has been found exclusively in the vicinity of the South Georgia Island in the Southern Ocean at depths of 1650 metres.

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