Bassogigas

<i>Bassogigas</i>

Bassogigas

Genus of fishes

Bassogigas is a genus of cusk eel from the subfamily Neobythitinae, part of the family Ophidiidae. The generic name "Bassogigas" comes from a combination of two Latin words: bassus, which means "deep" and gigas which means "giant".[2] The species are found in the Indo-Pacific and western Atlantic Ocean.[3]

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Species

The following two species are contained within the genus Bassogigas:[4]

  • Bassogigas gillii Goode & Bean, 1896
  • Bassogigas walkeri Nielsen & Møller, 2011 – (Walker's cusk eel)

References

  1. [1]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Bassogigas". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  2. [2]
    Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 March 2018). "Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families CARAPIDAE and OPHIDIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  3. [3]
    Nielsen, J.G. & P.R. Møller (2011). "Revision of the bathyal cusk-eels of the genus Bassogigas (Ophidiidae) with description of a new species from off Guam, west Pacific Ocean". Journal of Fish Biology. 78 (3): 783–795. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02892.x. PMID 21366572. Abstract
  4. [4]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). Species of Bassogigas in FishBase. February 2006 version.


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