Neobythitinae

Subfamilyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 154740ITIS 622725key worms:154740

2026-08-05: itis_id 622725 via WoRMS external link

Neobythitinae is a subfamily of cusk eel from the family Ophidiidae. They are mostly fishes of deeper waters, occurring from the continental shelf down to as deep as 8,370 metres (27,460 ft) at the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench where the deepest known fish, Abyssobrotula galatheae, has been taken.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2010.R

3
observations: 3
records: 1960–2010
years: 1
datasets

Photo · R. Mintern, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:154740")

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 1 taxon

G Spectrunculus3

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Ophidiidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lepophidium profundorum · source
Photo · R. Mintern, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Neobythitinae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366551518

Elsewhere Wikidata

Wikidata

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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