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: Ophidiidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Abyssobrotula galatheae Nielsen, 1977 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alcockia rostrata (Günther, 1887) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apagesoma delosommatum (Hureau, Staiger & Nielsen, 1979) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apagesoma edentatum Carter, 1983 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barathrites iris Zugmayer, 1911 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barathrodemus nasutus Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bassozetus compressus (Günther, 1878) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bassozetus glutinosus (Alcock, 1890) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bassozetus levistomatus Machida, 1989 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bassozetus mozambiquensis Tomiyama, Takami & Fukui, 2016 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bassozetus multispinis Shcherbachev, 1980 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bassozetus nasus Garman, 1899 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bassozetus nielseni Tomiyama, Takami & Fukui, 2018 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bassozetus robustus Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bassozetus squamosus Tomiyama, Takami & Fukui, 2021 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bassozetus taenia (Günther, 1887) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bassozetus werneri Nielsen & Merrett, 2000 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Zenkevitch's cusk-eelBassozetus zenkevitchi Rass, 1955 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bathyonus caudalis (Garman, 1899) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bathyonus laticeps (Günther, 1878) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bathyonus pectoralis Goode & Bean, 1885 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brotulotaenia brevicauda Cohen, 1974 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cherublemma emmelas (Gilbert, 1890) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dannevigia tusca Whitley, 1941 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene filamentosa Garman, 1899 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene gregoryi Trotter, 1926 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene hubrechti Weber, 1913 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene introniger Goode & Bean, 1883 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene kanazawai Grey, 1958 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene longimana Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene mesogramma Shcherbachev, 1980 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| slender brotulaDicrolene multifilis (Alcock, 1889) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene nigra Garman, 1899 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene nigricaudis (Alcock, 1891) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene pullata Garman, 1899 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene quinquarius (Günther, 1887) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene tristis Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dicrolene vaillanti (Alcock, 1890) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enchelybrotula gomoni Cohen, 1982 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enchelybrotula paucidens Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eretmichthys pinnatus Garman, 1899 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| pink cusk-eelGenypterus blacodes (Forster, 1801) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Genypterus brasiliensis Regan, 1903 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Genypterus capensis (Smith, 1847) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Genypterus chilensis (Guichenot, 1848) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Genypterus elongatus Schwarzhans, 1980 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Genypterus maculatus (Tschudi, 1846) | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Genypterus tigerinus Klunzinger, 1872 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Glyptophidium argenteum Alcock, 1889 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Glyptophidium japonicum Kamohara, 1936 | OphidiidaeChordata | 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.