Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Bathygadus melanobranchus Vaillant, 1888 (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Bathygadus vaillanti Roule & Angel, 1933 (synonym)

Melanobranchus melanobranchus (Vaillant, 1888) (synonym)

Common names:

Bulawik teczowy Polish

Eraguro-anadara Japanese

Peixe rato Portuguese

Rato Portuguese

Vaillant's grenadier English

黑鰓底尾鱈 Mandarin Chinese

黑鳃底尾鳕 Mandarin Chinese

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Gadiformes

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Family Macrouridae

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Genus Bathygadus

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Distribution:

Angola; Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic, Eastern Central; Atlantic, Northeast; Atlantic, Southeast; Atlantic, Western Central; Azores Islands; Bahamas; Benguela Current; Benin; Cameroon; Canary Current; Cape Verde; Caribbean Sea; Colombia; Congo, Dem. Rep. of the; Costa Rica; Côte d'Ivoire; Cuba; Curaçao Island; Eastern Atlantic: Ireland to South Africa. Western Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, off Suriname (Ref. 3587). Often confused with Bathygadus favosus.; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea Current; Guinea-Bissau; Gulf of Mexico; Guyana; Honduras; Iberian Coastal; Ireland; Liberia; Mauritania; Mexico; Morocco; Namibia; Nicaragua; Nigeria; North Brazil Shelf; Panama; Portugal; Senegal; Sierra Leone; South Africa; Spain; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; USA (contiguous states); Venezuela; Western Sahara

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2007

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Group expert : Iwamoto, Tomio, Data last modified by FishBase 21-Jan-1998

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:ee112394-29c1-102b-9a4a-00304854f820:ac2008


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