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Codheaded rattail

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Codheaded rattail
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gadiformes
Family: Macrouridae
Subfamily: Bathygadinae
Genus: Bathygadus
Species:
B. cottoides
Binomial name
Bathygadus cottoides
Günther, 1878

The codheaded rattail (Bathygadus cottoides) is a rattail of the genus Bathygadus, found in the southeast Atlantic Ocean and the southwest Pacific Oceans, at depths of between 1,000 and 1,600 m. Its length is between 20 and 30 cm.

References

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  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bathygadus cottoides". FishBase. April 2006 version.
  • Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
  • Iwamoto, T and Anderson, M. Eric. 1994. Review of the grenadiers (Teleostei: Gadiformes) of Southern Africa, with descriptions of four new species. Ichthyological Bulletin J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 61. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. ISBN 0-86810-276-8