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Brotula multibarbata Temminck, &. Schlegel, 1847
BEARDED CUSK
Bearded Brotula; Bearded Cuskeel; Bearded Rockling; Goatsbeard Brotula

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Brotula multibarbata
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Brotula multibarbata

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Overview
Main identification features
  • large eye
  • uniform body
  • dorsal fin and a: black margin + thin white border
  • barbels pale
Eye relatively large (diameter > space between eyes); dorsal rays 109-139; anal rays 80-106; pectoral 22-26; pelvic fins under middle of head, each consisting of a pair of filaments that are joined basally; three short barbels on each side of snout and three barbels on each side of lower jaw; dorsal and anal fins confluent with pointed tail.

Body uniform grey to reddish brown, barbels on snout and thin pale; dorsal and anal fins with black edges bordered by a thin white outer band; juveniles similar to adults or sometimes with scattered small black spots on the body, particularly near the bases of the dorsal and anal fins, and on the median fins.

Size: attains 100 cm.

Inhabits rocky reefs and adjacent sand bottoms.

Depth: 1-650 m.

Indo-central Pacific; in the eastern Pacific known only from two juveniles collected on the reef at Clipperton in 1998.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 650 m.
Depth Range Min: 1 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); bony fishes; Pelagic crustacea.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=11; Southern limit=11; Western limit=-110; Eastern limit=-110; Latitudinal range=1; Longitudinal range=1.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Bentho-Pelagic.
Global Endemism: All Pacific (West + Central + East); Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans); TEP non-endemic; "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific); All species.
Habitat: Corals; Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Sand & gravel; Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef and soft bottom; Water column.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 100 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s) only; Island (s); Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; All species.
Residency: Vagrant.
Salinity: Marine Only; Marine.
Water Column Position: Near Bottom; Bottom; Bottom + water column;


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References
  • Franke , R. and Acero P., A., 1995., Las Especies Colombianas del Genero Brotula (Pisces: Ophidiidae)., Caldasia, 17:597-602.
  • Jordan , D.S. and Evermann, B.W., 1898., The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part III., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 47:2183-3136.
  • Nielsen , J. G. , Cohen , D. M. , Markle , D. F. and Robins, C. R., 1999., Ophidiiform fishes of the world (Order Ophidiiformes)., FAO Fish. Synop. No 125, 18(125):1-177.
  • Temminck,C. J., Schlegel, H., 1846., Pisces, Fauna Japonica Parts 10-14: 173-269. See Temminck & Schlegel 1843., Fauna Japonica, 0:173-269.
  • Williams, J.T., 1984., Synopsis and phylogenetic analysis of the pearlfish subfamily Carapinae (Pisces: Carapidae)., Bull. Mar. Sci., 34:386-397.

Acknowledgements

I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.


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