Mataeocephalus, Berg, 1898

Iwamoto, Tomio, Nakayama, Naohide, Shao, Kwang-Tsao & Table, Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2015, Synopsis of the Grenadier Fishes (Gadiformes; Teleostei) of Taiwan, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 62 (3), pp. 31-126 : 88

Key to Species of Mataeocephalus in Taiwan

1a. BR 6; body scales densely covered with slender somewhat flattened, reclined spinules in somewhat convergent to divergent rows................................... M. hyostomus

1b. BR 7; body scales with needle-like spinules in 12–18 parallel rows, middle row slightly enlarged.......................................................... M. cristatus