The goanna fish, Australian halosaur, or common halosaur, ''Halosaurus pectoralis'', is a

halosaur Halosaurs are eel-shaped fishes found only at great ocean depths. As the family Halosauridae, halosaurs are one of two families within the order Notacanthiformes; the other being the deep-sea spiny eels, Notacanthidae. Halosaurs are thought to ...

of the genus ''

Halosaurus ''Halosaurus'' is a genus of fish in the family Halosauridae. This genus currently contains the following recognized species: * '' Halosaurus attenuatus'' Garman, 1899 (Galapagos halosaur) * '' Halosaurus carinicauda'' (Alcock, 1889) (Andama ...

'', found in the south west

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

References

* * Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) Halosauridae Deep sea fish Fish described in 1926 {{Notacanthiformes-stub