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Family: Ophidiidae Cusk-eels



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Scientific Name English Name Distribution Max. Length (cm) Year
Pycnocraspedum armatum Eastern Central Pacific 1954
Pycnocraspedum fulvum Northwest Pacific 34 SL 1984
Pycnocraspedum microlepis Northwest Pacific 34 SL 1943
Pycnocraspedum phyllosoma Western Central Atlantic 1933
Pycnocraspedum squamipinne Pelagic cusk Indo-West Pacific 29.9 SL 1889
Raneya brasiliensis Banded cusk eel Southwest Atlantic 31 TL 1856
Selachophidium guentheri Barbed brotula Southeast Atlantic and We 30 TL 1903
Sirembo amaculata Lined cusk Western Pacific 40.5 SL 1982
Sirembo imberbis Golden cusk Western Pacific 20 SL 1846
Sirembo jerdoni Brown-banded cusk-eel Indo-West Pacific 12.5 SL 1888
Sirembo metachroma Chameleon cusk Indo-Pacific 1986
Sirembo wami Eastern Indian Ocean 25.2 SL 2014
Spectrunculus crassus Atlantic and eastern Paci 57.5 SL 1888
Spectrunculus grandis Pudgy cuskeel Atlantic and Pacific Ocea 127 SL 1877
Spottobrotula mahodadi Indian Ocean 1978
Spottobrotula mossambica Western Indian Ocean 28.7 SL 2014
Spottobrotula persica Western Indian Ocean 30.2 SL 2014
Tauredophidium hextii Indo-West Pacific 10.5 SL 1890
Tenuicephalus melampeplus Western Indian Ocean and 21.8 SL 1896
Tenuicephalus multitrabs Indian Ocean (except for 20.2 SL 2021
Tenuicephalus silus Western Atlantic 1984
Tenuicephalus squamilabrus Western Indian 17.5 SL 2021
Typhlonus nasus Indian and Pacific. 28.5 SL 1878
Ventichthys biospeedoi East-Pacific ventbrotula Southeast Pacific 28.2 SL 2006
Xyelacyba myersi Gargoyle cusk Possibly worldwide in tro 57 TL 1961



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