Bathocyroe fosteri

Taxobox | name = "Bathocyroe fosteri"

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image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Ctenophora
classis = Tentaculata
ordo = Lobata
familia = Bathocyroidae
genus = "Bathocyroe"
species = "B. fosteri"
binomial = "Bathocyroe fosteri"
binomial_authority = L.P. Madin and G.R. Harbison, 1978

"Bathocyroe fosteri" is a species of lobate ctenophore found at intermediate depths in all the world's oceans. The species is very common and abundant near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It typically measures about two inches tall. It is bioluminescent. This deep-sea comb jelly is named for Alvin (DSV-2) pilot Dudley Foster, who collected the first specimens.