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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Bythitidae

Livebearing Brotulas

WoRMS 125503ITIS 165140GBIF 4220key worms:125503
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165140 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Sciadonus cryptophthalmus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Bythitidae
Photo · Put30 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

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 579 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

579
observations
579
records
5
sampling events
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, 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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 5 obs · 5 events · 1960–2002 · larva
    name used: Bythitidae Livebearing Brotulas · code 865

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125503%22