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Macrouridae
Vaillant's grenadier
Bathygadus favosus
Macrourid Fish from the South African Coast
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- Elongated
- Medium
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
MediumVaillant's grenadier is a marine fish found around Atlantic Ocean. It inhabits deep water. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 46.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cods and Hakes
- Family
- Macrouridae
- Genus
- Bathygadus
- Maximum length
- 46.5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Atlantic Ocean: Eastern Atlantic: off Mauritania, Gulf of Guinea, off Morocco and Madeira; also off Cape Town, South Africa (Ref. 11953 ). Western Atlantic: Straits of Florida, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea. Often confused with Bathygadus melanobranchus Vaillant, 1888.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Water
Conservation status
