African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

WoRMS taxon details

Microbrotula Gosline, 1953

AphiaID

269853 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:269853)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Bythitinae Gill, 1861

Direct children (11)

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Species Microbrotula andersoni Schwarzhans & Nielsen, 2011
Species Microbrotula bentleyi Anderson, 2005
Species Microbrotula geraldalleni Schwarzhans & Nielsen, 2012
Species Microbrotula greenfieldi Anderson, 2007
Species Microbrotula hamata Schwarzhans & Nielsen, 2011
Species Microbrotula punicea Anderson, 2007
Species Microbrotula queenslandica Anderson, 2005
Species Microbrotula rubra Gosline, 1953
Species Microbrotula polyactis Anderson, 2005 accepted as Microbrotula bentleyi Anderson, 2005
Species Microbrotula puniceus Anderson, 2007 accepted as Microbrotula punicea Anderson, 2007 (misspelling)
Species Microbrotula randalli Cohen & Wourms, 1976 accepted as Ematops randalli (Cohen & Wourms, 1976)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Gosline, W. A. (1953). Hawaiian shallow-water fishes of the family Brotulidae, with the description of a new genus and notes on brotulid anatomy. Copeia 1953. (4): 215-225. [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Microbrotula Gosline, 1953. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269853 on 2024-05-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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original description Gosline, W. A. (1953). Hawaiian shallow-water fishes of the family Brotulidae, with the description of a new genus and notes on brotulid anatomy. Copeia 1953. (4): 215-225. [details]

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2024). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2024., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

identification resource Anderson, M. E. (2007). Two New Microbrotula (Teleostei: Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) from the Southwestern Pacific Ocean, with a Revised Key to the Species. Species Diversity. 12(1), 1-8. [details]

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Introduced: alien

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