Bathypterois grallator
| Tripodfish | |
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| An illustration of bathypterois grallator. | |
| B. grallator standing on the seafloor. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Aulopiformes |
| Family: | Ipnopidae |
| Genus: | Bathypterois |
| Species: | B. grallator
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| Binomial name | |
| Bathypterois grallator (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1886)
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The tripod fish, (also known as the tripod spiderfish or the tiptoe minnow), 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.