{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{No footnotes|date=December 2022}} {{Speciesbox | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{cite iucn |author=Uiblein, F. |author2=Everett, B. |author3=Matiku, P. |author4=Sithole, Y. |year=2020 |title=''Mastigopterus imperator'' |volume=2020 |article-number=e.T137568477A137570744 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T137568477A137570744.en |access-date=9 April 2025}}</ref> | taxon = Mastigopterus imperator | display_parents = 2 | authority = H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 }}

'''''Mastigopterus imperator''''' is a species of cusk-eel found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans where it occurs at depths of from {{convert|394|to|2365|m|ft|-1}}. This species grows to a length of {{convert|53.5|cm|in}} SL. It is the only known member of its genus.

==References== * {{FishBase |genus= Mastigopterus|species= imperator| month = June | year = 2012}} {{Reflist}}

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Category:Ophidiidae Category:Fish described in 1913

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