Bathygadidae
Bathygadidae | |
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Bathygadus melanobranchus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gadiformes |
Family: | Bathygadidae D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1898 |
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Bathygadidae is a family of rattails found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. These species lives in great depths.The chin barbel is usually absent in the genus Bathygadus when present barbel tiny and difficult to see without magnification. In Gadomus the chin barbel is present, usually thick and long.[1]
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