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Bathygadus melanobranchus Vaillant 1888
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Description
Bathygadus melanobranchus Vaillant, 1888
– 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).
Notes
Published as part of 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, pp. 1-73 in European Journal of Taxonomy 73 on page 34, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.73, http://zenodo.org/record/3866515
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Vaillant
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Gadiformes
- Family
- Macrouridae
- Genus
- Bathygadus
- Species
- melanobranchus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bathygadus melanobranchus Vaillant, 1888 sec. Carneiro, Martins, Landi & Costa, 2014
References
- Vaillant L. L. & Milne-Edwards A. 1888. Expeditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les annees 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883: Poissons. G. Masson, Paris.
- Iwamoto T. 2003. Family nº 93 - Macrouridae. In: Smith J. L. B, Smith M. M. & Heemstra P. C. (eds) Smith's Sea Fishes: 330 - 350. Struik, Cape Town.