Bathophilus Giglioli, 1882

Villarins, Bárbara T., Dario, Fabio Di, Eduardo, Leandro N., Lucena-Frédou, Flávia, Bertrand, Arnaud, Prokofiev, Artem M. & Mincarone, Michael M., 2022, Deep-sea dragonfishes (Teleostei: Stomiiformes) collected from off northeastern Brazil, with a review of the species reported from the Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone, Neotropical Ichthyology (e 220004) 20 (2), pp. 1-78 : 45

Bathophilus Giglioli, 1882

Diagnosis. Bathophilus can be distinguished in the Melanostomiinae by the absence of teeth on vomer; premaxilla with fixed teeth followed by a series of depressible teeth; suborbital organs reduced or absent; base of pelvic fin high on body, about near midlateral portion of body; dorsal- and anal-fin bases similar in length; presence of small photophores in the entire body (Morrow, Gibbs, 1964; Barnett, Gibbs Jr., 1968; Gibbs, 1986c; Kenaley, Stewart, 2015h; Sutton et al., 2020). A total of 19 valid species (Fricke et al., 2022).