Brotulotaenia

Genus of fishes

Brotulotaenia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Ophidiiformes
Family: Ophidiidae
Subfamily: Brotulotaeniinae
Cohen & Nielsen, 1978[1]
Genus: Brotulotaenia
A. E. Parr, 1933
Type species
Brotulotaenia nigra
Parr, 1933

Brotulotaenia is a genus of cusk-eels. It is the only genus in the subfamily Brotulotaeniinae.

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[2]

  • Brotulotaenia brevicauda Cohen, 1974
  • Brotulotaenia crassa A. E. Parr, 1934 (Violet cusk eel)
  • Brotulotaenia nielseni Cohen, 1974
  • Brotulotaenia nigra A. E. Parr, 1933 (Dark cusk)

References

  1. ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Brotulotaenia in FishBase. June 2012 version.
Taxon identifiers
Brotulotaenia


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