Vaillant's grenadier

Bathygadus melanobranchus

Fish Reaching Fifty Centimeters in African Waters

Bathygadus is a genus of rattails of the family Bathygadidae.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Cods and Hakes
Family: Macrouridae
Genus: Bathygadus
Maximum length: 50 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Atlantic Ocean: Eastern Atlantic: Ireland to South Africa. Western Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, off Suriname (Ref. 3587 ). Often confused with Bathygadus favosus Goode & Bean, 1886.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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