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WoRMS taxon details

Luciobrotula Smith & Radcliffe, 1913

AphiaID

158763 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158763)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Neobythitinae Radcliffe, 1913

Synonymised names

Volcanus Gosline, 1954 · unaccepted

Direct children (7)

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Species Luciobrotula bartschi Smith & Radcliffe, 1913
Species Luciobrotula brasiliensis Nielsen, 2009
Species Luciobrotula coheni Nielsen, 2009
Species Luciobrotula corethromycter Cohen, 1964
Species Luciobrotula lineata (Gosline, 1954)
Species Luciobrotula nolfi Cohen, 1981
Species Luciobrotula polylepis Wong, Lee & Chen, 2021

Environment

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

Original description

Radcliffe, L. (1913). Descriptions of seven new genera and thirty-one new species of fishes of the families Brotulidae and Carapidae from the Philippine Islands and the Dutch East Indies. [Scientific results of the Philippine cruise ... "Albatross," 1907-1910.--No. 24.]. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. v. 44 (no. 1948): 135-176, Pls. 7-17., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.44-1948.135 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Luciobrotula Smith & Radcliffe, 1913. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158763 on 2026-10-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-27 07:39:43Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2008-04-07 06:18:50Z

changed

Decock, Wim

2013-03-11 13:25:43Z

checked

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Radcliffe, L. (1913). Descriptions of seven new genera and thirty-one new species of fishes of the families Brotulidae and Carapidae from the Philippine Islands and the Dutch East Indies. [Scientific results of the Philippine cruise ... "Albatross," 1907-1910.--No. 24.]. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. v. 44 (no. 1948): 135-176, Pls. 7-17., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.44-1948.135 [details]

original description (of Volcanus Gosline, 1954) Gosline, W. A. (1954). Fishes killed by the 1950 eruption of Mauna Loa. II. Brotulidae. Pacific Science. 8 (1): 68-83. [details]

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Other

context source (PeRMS) Robertson, D. R.; Angulo, A.; Baldwin, C. C.; Pitassy, D.; Driskell, A.; Weigt, L.; Navarro, I. J. (2017). Deep-water bony fishes collected by the B/O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America: an annotated, illustrated and DNA-barcoded checklist. Zootaxa. 4348(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4348.1.1 [details]

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554. [details]

additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]