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LONGNOSE LANCETFISH (Alepisaurus ferox): SPECIES ACCOUNTS
TRIPODFISH (Bathypterois quadrifilis): SPECIES ACCOUNTS

GEOGRAPHIC RANGE

Lizardfishes and their relatives live in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

HABITAT

Lizardfishes and their relatives live at the bottom or swim freely in open water. These fishes live at depths from warm, shallow water near the shore to water so deep that light is almost absent. The bottom-dwelling fishes rest on rubble, sand, coral, rock, seaweed, or mud.

DIET

Lizardfishes and their relatives are predators (PREH-duhterz), or animals that hunt and kill other animals for food. Bottom-dwelling species eat smaller fishes and shrimps that they ambush and capture with their large, toothy mouths. At middle depths and in deep water lizardfishes and their relatives probably capture passing fish, squid, and shrimp.

THEIR RELATIVES LIZARDFISHES AND PEOPLE

Although the meat of shallow-water lizardfishes and their relatives is bony, some people eat it.

CONSERVATION STATUS

Lizardfishes and their relatives are not threatened nor endangered.

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