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Family: Bythitidae Livebearing brotulas



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Scientific Name English Name Distribution Max. Length (cm) Year
Acarobythites larsonae Larson's cusk Western Central Pacific 2.5 SL 2000
Anacanthobythites platycephalus Eastern Indian Ocean 10.7 SL 2008
Anacanthobythites tasmaniensis Eastern Indian Ocean 5.3 SL 2008
Aphyonus gelatinosus Gelatinous blindfish Indo-West Pacific 15 SL 1878
Barathronus affinis Western Central Indian Oc 4.7 SL 1906
Barathronus algrahami Indo-West Pacific 20 SL 2019
Barathronus bicolor Western Central Atlantic 14 SL 1886
Barathronus bruuni Southwest Indian Ocean. 3.9 SL 1969
Barathronus diaphanus Indo-West Pacific 10.1 SL 1906
Barathronus linsi Southwest Atlantic 10.1 SL 2015
Barathronus maculatus Spotted gelatinous cusk Indo-West Pacific 18 TL 1976
Barathronus multidens Northwest and Eastern Cen 1984
Barathronus pacificus Atlantic and Pacific Ocea 12.8 SL 1974
Barathronus parfaiti Northeast Atlantic 10 SL 1888
Barathronus roulei Northeast Atlantic 10 SL 2019
Bellottia apoda Mediterranean Sea and sub 6.5 SL 1883
Bellottia armiger Western Central Pacific 1913
Bellottia cryptica Atlantic Ocean 4.2 SL 2009
Bellottia galatheae Western Pacific 5.1 SL 2008
Bellottia robusta Atlantic Ocean 8.2 SL 2009
Bidenichthys beeblebroxi Southwest Pacific 8.2 TL 1995
Bidenichthys capensis Freetail brotula Southeast Atlantic 9 TL 1934
Bidenichthys consobrinus Grey brotula Southwest Pacific 16 TL 1876
Bidenichthys paxtoni Baldhead cusk Southwest Pacific 7.4 SL 1986
Bidenichthys slartibartfasti Southwest Pacific 11.1 SL 1995
Brosmodorsalis persicinus Pink brotula Southwest Pacific 6 TL 1989
Brosmophyciops pautzkei Slimy cuskeel Indo-Pacific 7.5 TL 1960
Brosmophycis marginata Red brotula Eastern Pacific 46 TL 1854
Bythites fuscus Arctic brotula Northwest Atlantic 14.6 NG 1837
Bythites gerdae Western Central Atlantic 1973
Bythites islandicus Northeast Atlantic 9 TL 1973
Calamopteryx goslinei Longarm brotula Western Central Atlantic 6.4 SL 1966
Calamopteryx jeb Southeast Pacific 1973
Calamopteryx robinsorum Teacher brotula Western Central Atlantic. 1973
Cataetyx alleni Eastern Atlantic 12 TL 1906
Cataetyx bruuni Eastern Atlantic 10 TL 1963
Cataetyx chthamalorhynchus Southeast Atlantic 36 TL 1981
Cataetyx hawaiiensis Eastern Central Pacific 1954
Cataetyx laticeps Eastern Atlantic 65 TL 1927
Cataetyx lepidogenys Western Pacific 13 SL 1913
Cataetyx messieri Southeast Pacific and Sou 27.6 SL 1878
Cataetyx nielseni Nielsen's catetyx Southwest Pacific 18 TL 2005
Cataetyx platyrhynchus Northwest Pacific 57 SL 1984
Cataetyx rubrirostris Rubynose brotula Eastern Pacific 15.7 TL 1890
Cataetyx simus Eastern Pacific 63.2 TL 1899
Diplacanthopoma alcockii Eastern Indian Ocean 1896
Diplacanthopoma brachysoma Western Atlantic 10.2 SL 1887
Diplacanthopoma brunneum Western Central Pacific 45 TL 1913
Diplacanthopoma japonicum Northwest Pacific 40 SL 1887
Diplacanthopoma jordani Eastern Pacific. 44.7 TL 1899
Diplacanthopoma kreffti Deepbody cusk Eastern Indian Ocean 2002
Diplacanthopoma nigripinnis Western Indian Ocean 30 TL 1924
Diplacanthopoma raniceps Indian Ocean 1898
Diplacanthopoma riversandersoni Western Indian Ocean 1895
Ematops randalli Randall's viviparous brotula Indo-Pacific Ocean 4.2 SL 1976
Grammonus ater Eastern Atlantic 12 SL 1810
Grammonus claudei Reef-cave brotula Western Atlantic 10 TL 1930
Grammonus diagrammus Purple brotula Eastern Pacific 20.3 TL 1903
Grammonus longhursti Eastern Atlantic 10.6 SL 1964
Grammonus minutus Pacific Ocean 5.5 SL 2010
Grammonus nagaredai Pacific 106 SL 2008
Grammonus opisthodon Bighead brotula Southeast Atlantic 5 TL 1934
Grammonus robustus Indo-West Pacific 21 SL 1913
Grammonus thielei Western Pacific 18 TL 2004
Grammonus waikiki Eastern Central Pacific 5.2 TL 1964
Grammonus yunokawai Northwest Pacific 9.8 SL 2007
Hastatobythites arafurensis Spinyhead cusk Western Pacific 9 SL 1997
Hephthocara crassiceps Western Central Pacific 1913
Hephthocara simum Eastern Indian Ocean 21.5 TL 1892
Leucobrotula adipata Northeast Atlantic 4.5 NG 1952
Lucifuga dentata Toothed Cuban cusk-eel Central America 15.2 SL 1858
Lucifuga gibarensis Gibara cave brotula North America 8.9 SL 2020
Lucifuga inopinata Southeast Pacific 10.1 SL 1998
Lucifuga lucayana Lucaya cavebrotula Western Atlantic 9.9 SL 2006
Lucifuga simile Central America 8.8 SL 1981
Lucifuga spelaeotes New Providence cusk-eel Western Central Atlantic 10.9 SL 1970
Lucifuga subterranea Cuban cusk-eel Central America 9.4 SL 1858
Lucifuga teresinarum Central America 8.3 SL 1988
Majungaichthys agalegae Western Indian Ocean 4 SL 2011
Majungaichthys simplex Western Indian Ocean 4 SL 2007
Megacataetyx niki Southeast Atlantic 64 TL 1981
Melodichthys hadrocephalus Northeast Atlantic 1986
Meteoria erythrops Atlantic Ocean. 7.5 SL 1969
Meteoria pauciradiatus Western Pacific 4.6 SL 1997
Microbrotula andersoni Anderson's viviparous brotula Eastern Indian Ocean, Chr 5.2 SL 2011
Microbrotula bentleyi Many-ray cusk Indo-Pacific 4.1 SL 2005
Microbrotula geraldalleni Western Pacific 4.1 SL 2012
Microbrotula greenfieldi Western Central Pacific 3.1 SL 2007
Microbrotula hamata Western Pacific 3.4 SL 2011
Microbrotula punicea Southwestern Pacific 2007
Microbrotula queenslandica Queensland cusk Southwestern Pacific 3.1 SL 2005
Microbrotula rubra Endemic to Hawaii. 1953
Nybelinella brevianalis Eastern Central Atlantic 6.2 SL 2017
Nybelinella brevidorsalis Eastern Indian Ocean. 1976
Nybelinella erikssoni Eastern Atlantic 8 TL 1957
Parabrotula plagiophthalma False cusk Northeast Atlantic 5.4 SL 1911
Parabrotula tanseimaru Northwest Pacific 5.0 SL 1991
Paraphyonus bolini Indo-West Pacific 15.5 SL 1974
Paraphyonus brevidorsalis Western Indian Ocean 7.1 SL 1969
Paraphyonus iselini Western Central Atlantic 11.8 SL 2015
Paraphyonus merretti Eastern Central Atlantic 12.5 SL 2015
Paraphyonus rassi West and East Central Atl 10.9 SL 1975
Paraphyonus solomonensis Western Pacific 10 SL 2008
Parasaccogaster melanomycter Western Central Atlantic 6.6 SL 1981
Parasaccogaster normae Southeast Pacific 14.2 1972
Parasaccogaster rhamphidognatha Western Central Atlantic 6 SL 1987
Parasciadonus brevibrachium Western Central Pacific 1984
Petrotyx hopkinsi Velvetnose brotula Eastern Pacific 20 TL 1903
Petrotyx sanguineus Redfin brotula Western Atlantic 13 TL 1928
Pseudonus acutus Eastern Central Pacific 12.1 SL 1899
Pseudonus squamiceps Indo-West Pacific 11.6 SL 1907
Saccogaster brayae Eastern Indian Ocean 3.6 SL 2012
Saccogaster hawaii Eastern Central Pacific 6.9 SL 1972
Saccogaster horrida Eastern Indian Ocean. Au 5.9 SL 2012
Saccogaster maculata Indian Ocean 8.7 SL 1889
Saccogaster nikoliviae Eastern Indian Ocean 6.9 SL 2012
Saccogaster parva Southwest Atlantic 5.8 SL 1972
Saccogaster staigeri Western Central Atlantic 9.3 SL 1972
Saccogaster tuberculata Bagbelly cusk Indo-Pacific 16 SL 1966
Sciadonus cryptophthalmus ################ 10 SL 1911
Sciadonus jonassoni Eastern Atlantic. 1957
Sciadonus longiventralis Southwest Pacific 2018
Sciadonus pedicellaris Northeast Atlantic, North 12.6 SL 1899
Sciadonus robinsorum Southwest Atlantic 4.7 SL 2018
Stygnobrotula latebricola Black brotula Western Atlantic 7.5 TL 1957
Thalassobathia nelsoni Southeast Pacific 1974
Thalassobathia pelagica Eastern Atlantic 22.1 SL 1963
Thermichthys hollisi Southeast Pacific 1990
Timorichthys angustus Northwest Pacific 5.2 SL 2013
Timorichthys disjunctus Eastern Indian Ocean 3.9 SL 2011
Tuamotuichthys bispinosus Two-spined slopebrotula Southern Pacific 8.8 SL 2004
Tuamotuichthys marshallensis Marshall slopebrotula Western Pacific 12 SL 2006
Tuamotuichthys schwarzhansi Western Pacific 7.4 SL 2008



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