Tripodfish
Bathypterois grallator
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
The tripod fish, Bathypterois grallator, is a grinner in the family Ipnopidae found at lower latitudes. Because of its unique way of "standing" on the seafloor, B. grallator is one of the best-known benthic fish, and it is one of the few members of its genus to be directly observed and photographed by submersibles.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Aulopiformes
- Family
- Ipnopidae
- Genus
- Bathypterois