WoRMS taxon details
Microbrotula Gosline, 1953
- 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)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gosline, W. A. (1953). Hawaiian shallow-water fishes of the family Brotulidae, with the description of a new genus and notes on brotulid anatomy. <em>Copeia 1953.</em> (4): 215-225. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Microbrotula Gosline, 1953. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269853 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
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. <em>Copeia 1953.</em> (4): 215-225. [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Anderson, M. E. (2007). Two New Microbrotula (Teleostei: Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) from the Southwestern Pacific Ocean, with a Revised Key to the Species. <em>Species Diversity.</em> 12(1), 1-8. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
