''Halosaurus ovenii'', also called the Oven's halosaur, is a deep-sea

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...

in the family

Halosauridae 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 h ...

. It is found in the eastern Atlantic where it is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical waters along both coasts. In the Mediterranean, H. ovenii is considered rare.IUCN Red List retrieved June 2016
/ref> It can reach up to 60 cm in length.
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References

Halosauridae Fish described in 1864 Taxa named by James Yate Johnson {{Notacanthiformes-stub