Bathyprion Marshall, 1966
(formerly in Bathyprionidae)
Diagnosis: body very slender and elongate. Head large; snout pointed and long; eye much smaller than snout; upper jaw long, reaching well beyond eye, fang-like conical teeth in upper and lower jaws and on palatines. Pyloric caeca 7-8. Dorsal and anal fins the same size and opposite each other, dorsal finrays 24-27, pectoral finrays 10-11, pelvic finrays 89 (plus a splint bone), anal finrays 24-27. Scales small and numerous. Colour: brownish. Size: to 38 cm.
Habitat: bathypelagic at about 1,100-3,100 m. Food: no data. Reproduction: no data.
Distribution: isolated records from Madeira north to about 55° N. Elsewhere, South Atlantic and western Pacific.
Species 1. Recent revisions: Marshall (1966).
Species of this genus in the program:
Bathyprion danae