Nomenclature
original description
(of Bathygadus capensis Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924) Gilchrist, J. D. F.; von Bonde, C. (1924). Deep-sea fishes procured by the S.S. "Pickle" (Part II). <em>Report Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey, Union of South Africa.</em> 3 (7): 1-24, Pls. 1-6. [details]
original description
(of Bathygadus fumosus Barnard, 1925) Barnard, K. H. (1925). Descriptions of new species of marine fishes from S. Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9).</em> 15 (86) (56): 498-504. [details]
basis of record
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
From editor or global species database