Bidenichthys

Bidenichthys
Grey Brotula (B. consobrinus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Ophidiiformes
Family: Bythitidae
Tribe: Brosmophycini
Genus: Bidenichthys
Barnard, 1934
Type species
Bidenichthys capensis
Barnard, 1934
Synonyms

Fiordichthys Paulin, 1995

Bidenichthys is a genus of viviparous brotulas.

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • Bidenichthys beeblebroxi Paulin, 1995: "Found in holes beneath rocks and boulders from the surface to 30 m around the North Island and northern part of South Island, New Zealand. Common."[2]
  • Bidenichthys capensis Barnard, 1934 (Freetail brotula):[3] The type species for the genus; "intertidal in rocky tidepools from East London to the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Uncommon."[2]
  • Bidenichthys consobrinus (F. W. Hutton, 1876) (Grey brotula): "Rocky areas at depths of 30 to 178 m off northern New Zealand. Rare."[2]
gollark: Why do people keep *spreading* these ridiculous announcements about things, and trying to ping several thousand people about them?
gollark: I was talking about the petition, the moderator picture is obviously real.
gollark: That is some high-quality image editing.
gollark: In fact, a lot of the time, the cover image is bigger than the text.
gollark: I'm not a cloud person. It's stored locally (and besides, any cloud thing should probably report filesizes sanely). The thing is that most books are actually less than a megabyte or so, because they generally don't contain many pictures and text compresses really well.

References
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Bidenichthys in FishBase. June 2012 version.
  2. Nielsen, JG; Cohen, DM; Markle, DF; Robins, CR (1999). FAO species catalog, Volume 18: Ophidiiform fishes of the world (Order Ophidiiformes): An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform fishes known to date (PDF). FAO species catalog. 18. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. p. 118. ISBN 92-5-104375-2.
  3. "ITIS standard report page: Bidenichthys beeblebroxi (Paulin, 1995)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 December 2013.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.