Bathypterois dubius, Mediterranean spiderfish Description
Bathypterois dubius with copepod parasite
Date 1911
Source Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, prince souverain de Monaco Albert I, Prince of Monaco, 1848-1922 http://www.archive.org/stream/rsultatsdescam35albe#page/n5/mode/2up
Author Emma Kissling
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bathypterois_dubius1.jpg
The Mediterranean spiderfish, Bathypterois dubius, a lizardfish of the family Ipnopidae, is found in the Eastern Atlantic, as well as the Mediterranean and northwest Atlantic. Like other species in its family, the Mediterranean spiderfish is hermaphroditic. It is solitary in nature and feeds on mysids and copepods. It reaches a length of 20.5 centimetres SL.
Order: Aulopiformes
Family: Ipnopidae
Genus: Bathypterois
Species: Bathypterois dubius Vaillant, 1888
