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Thanks for commenting. This

Thanks for commenting. This is not a deep sea lizard -- it's a fish. It's in the family Bathysauridae, which only contains two species.

To make it more confusing, there is a different group of fishes called lizardfishes, but, despite the deepsea lizardfish's common name, it is not actually in this group.

Thanks for reading!

Submitted by Ocean Portal Team on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 10:45am.

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