Bathyphylax

Bathyphylax is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Triacanthodidae, the spikefishes. The fishes in this genus are found in the deep waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

==Taxonomy== Bathyphylax was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1935 by the American ichthyologist George S. Myers when he described Bathyphylax bombifrons, which he also designated as its type species. When Myers described B. bombifrons he gave its type locality given as the "China Sea" off Hong Kong. In 1968 the American ichthyologist James C. Tyler classified this genus in the nominate subfamily of the family Triacanthodidae, the Triacanthodinae. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family Triacanthodidae in the suborder Triacanthoidei in the order Tetraodontiformes.