WoRMS taxon details
Diancistrus Ogilby, 1899
268981 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:268981)
accepted
Genus
Brotulina Fowler, 1946 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Brotunila Fowler, 1946 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Calcarbrotula Fowler, 1946 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Parabrosmolus Machida, 1996 · unaccepted
- Species Diancistrus alatus Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus alleni Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus altidorsalis Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus atollorum Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus beateae Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus bikini Schwarzhans & Su, 2026
- Species Diancistrus brevirostris Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus eremitus Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus erythraeus (Fowler, 1946)
- Species Diancistrus fijiensis Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus fuscus (Fowler, 1946)
- Species Diancistrus iugusurculus Schwarzhans & Su, 2026
- Species Diancistrus jackrandalli Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus jeffjohnsoni Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus karinae Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus katrineae Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus leisi Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus longifilis Ogilby, 1899
- Species Diancistrus machidai Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus manciporus Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus mcgroutheri Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus mennei Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus moelleri Schwarzhans & Su, 2026
- Species Diancistrus niger Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus novaeguineae (Machida, 1996)
- Species Diancistrus palau Schwarzhans & Su, 2026
- Species Diancistrus pohnpeiensis Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus robustus Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus springeri Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus tongaensis Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
- Species Diancistrus vietnamensis Schwarzhans, Møller & Nielsen, 2005
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Ogilby, J. D. (1899). Additions to the fauna of Lord Howe Island. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 23 (pt 4): 730-745. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Diancistrus Ogilby, 1899. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=268981 on 2026-09-25
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Nomenclature
original description
Ogilby, J. D. (1899). Additions to the fauna of Lord Howe Island. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 23 (pt 4): 730-745. [details]
original description (of Parabrosmolus Machida, 1996) Machida, Y. (1996). Parabrosmolus novaeguineae, a new genus and species of the subfamily Brosmophycinae from Papua New Guinea (Bythitidae, Ophidiiformes). <em>Ichthyological Research.</em> 43 (2): 147-151., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02348238 [details]
original description (of Parabrosmolus Machida, 1996) Machida, Y. (1996). Parabrosmolus novaeguineae, a new genus and species of the subfamily Brosmophycinae from Papua New Guinea (Bythitidae, Ophidiiformes). <em>Ichthyological Research.</em> 43 (2): 147-151., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02348238 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | サンゴイタチウオ属サンゴイタチウオ [from synonym] | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Brotulina Fowler, 1946)
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Diancistrus)
To Genbank (from synonym Brotulina Fowler, 1946)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Brotulina USNM 189949 radiograph) (from synonym Brotulina Fowler, 1946)
To ITIS
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Diancistrus)
To Genbank (from synonym Brotulina Fowler, 1946)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Brotulina USNM 189949 radiograph) (from synonym Brotulina Fowler, 1946)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Hosted externally, from synonym
