Bythitidae
Livebearing Brotulas
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165140 via WoRMS external link
The viviparous brotulas form a family, the Bythitidae, of ophidiiform fishes. They are known as viviparous brotulas as they generally bear live young, although there are indications that some species do not.W CalCOFI holds 582 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R
- 582
- observations
- 582
- records
- 5
- sampling events
- 1951–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 2
- species under it
- larva
- life stages
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same
strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses
(dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet
pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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name used: Bythitidae Livebearing Brotulas · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125503")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125503'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 2 taxa · Brosmophycis most observed
- G Brosmophycis302
- G Cataetyx275
Life stages larva
- Ichthyoplankton larva
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Ophidiiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Sciadonus cryptophthalmus · source
- Photo · Put30 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Viviparous brotula” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1257442947
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗