Cherublemma

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 268738ITIS 164997key worms:268738

2026-08-05: itis_id 164997 via WoRMS external link

Cherublemma emmelas, the black brotula, is a species of cusk-eel found along the Pacific coast of Central and South America from Baja California to Chile. It occurs at depths of from 102 to 740 metres.W CalCOFI holds 19 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2006.R

19
observations: 19
records: 1972–2006
years: 1
datasets

Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

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:268738")

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

sp Cherublemma emmelas Black brotula19

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Ophidiinae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lepophidium profundorum · source
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Cherublemma” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1345188746

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

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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