Bathygadus melanobranchus Vaillant, 1888

– Vaillant’s grenadier; ①, Peixe-rato or Rato ②, ③

This species is often confused with B. favosus . According to Iwamoto (2003), B. melanobranchus is most similar to B. favosus in its external features, but differs in counts of pyloric caeca (9-12 compared with 16-27 in B. favosus).