Bathygadus melanobranchus Vaillant, 1888

Carneiro, Miguel, Martins, Rogélia, Landi, Monica & Costa, Filipe O., 2014, Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf, European Journal of Taxonomy 73, pp. 1-73 : 34

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2014.73
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9A5F217D-8E7B-448A-9CAB-2CCC9CC6F857
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3868615
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F442953B-2E5C-EF43-FF54-F92BFE3E7969
treatment provided by	Tatiana
scientific name	Bathygadus melanobranchus Vaillant, 1888
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Bathygadus melanobranchus Vaillant, 1888 View in CoL View at ENA

– Vaillant’s grenadier; ①, Peixe-rato or Rato ②, ③

This species is often confused with B. favosus . According to Iwamoto (2003), B. melanobranchus is most similar to B. favosus in its external features, but differs in counts of pyloric caeca (9-12 compared with 16-27 in B. favosus ).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
SuperClass	Gnathostomata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Gadiformes
Family	Macrouridae
Genus	Bathygadus

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