Halieutopsis is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ogcocephalidae, the deep sea batfishes.

Halieutopsis was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1899 by the American zoologist Samuel Garman when he described,[1] giving its type locality given as off the Galapagos Islands.

[3] The family Ogcocephalidae is classified in the monotypic suborder Ogcocephaloidei within the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World.

[4] Halieutopsis suffixes opsis, meaning "looking like" to halieut which is derived from halieutaea, Greek for an "angler" or "fisherman".

[12] Halieutopsis batfishes are found in the Indian Ocean and the western and eastern Pacific Oceans[6] in temperate to tropical regions on continental shelves, slopes, and in deeper waters of the Indo-Pacific at depths of between approximately 100 and 4,020 m (330 and 13,190 ft).