A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Bythitidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Acarobythites larsonae Machida, 2000 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anacanthobythites platycephalus Anderson, 2008 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anacanthobythites tasmaniensis Anderson, 2008 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barathronus algrahami Nielsen, Pogonoski & Appleyard, 2019 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barathronus bicolor Goode & Bean, 1886 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barathronus multidens Nielsen, 1984 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bellottia apoda Giglioli, 1883 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bellottia armiger (Smith & Radcliffe, 1913) | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bellottia cryptica Nielsen, Ross & Cohen, 2009 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bellottia galatheae Nielsen & Møller, 2008 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bellottia robusta Nielsen, Ross & Cohen, 2009 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bidenichthys beeblebroxi Paulin, 1995 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bidenichthys capensis Barnard, 1934 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bidenichthys slartibartfasti (Paulin, 1995) | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bidenichthys struthersi Schwarzhans, 2019 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Brosmodorsalis persicinus Paulin & Roberts, 1989 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brosmophyciops pautzkei Schultz, 1960 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brosmophyciops tongarewae Schwarzhans, 2019 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Bythites gerdae Nielsen & Cohen, 1973 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| longarm brotulaCalamopteryx goslinei Böhlke & Cohen, 1966 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cataetyx alleni (Byrne, 1906) | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cataetyx chthamalorhynchus Cohen, 1981 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cataetyx laticeps Koefoed, 1927 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cataetyx nielseni Balushkin & Prokofiev, 2005 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cataetyx platyrhynchus Machida, 1984 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Diplacanthopoma alcockii Goode & Bean, 1896 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Diplacanthopoma brachysoma Günther, 1887 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Diplacanthopoma brunneum Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Diplacanthopoma japonicum (Steindachner & Döderlein, 1887) | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Diplacanthopoma kovacsi Girard et al., 2026 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Diplacanthopoma kreffti Cohen & Nielsen, 2002 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Diplacanthopoma nigripinnis Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Diplacanthopoma raniceps Alcock, 1898 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Diplacanthopoma riversandersoni Alcock, 1895 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ematops randalli (Cohen & Wourms, 1976) | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grammonus ater (Risso, 1810) | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| reef-cave brotulaGrammonus claudei (Torre y Huerta, 1930) | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| purple brotulaGrammonus diagrammus (Heller & Snodgrass, 1903) | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grammonus opisthodon Smith, 1934 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hastatobythites arafurensis Machida, 1997 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hephthocara crassiceps Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hephthocara simum Alcock, 1892 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lucifuga dentata Poey, 1858 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lucifuga inopinata Cohen & McCosker, 1998 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lucifuga lucayana Møller, Schwarzhans, Iliffe & Nielsen, 2006 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lucifuga simile Nalbant, 1981 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lucifuga spelaeotes Cohen & Robins, 1970 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lucifuga teresinarum Díaz Pérez, 1988 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Melodichthys hadrocephalus Nielsen & Cohen, 1986 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Meteoria erythrops Nielsen, 1969 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.