family Ophidiidae

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Noun1.family Ophidiidae - eellike marine fishes
Ophidiidae
fish family - any of various families of fish
order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna
cusk-eel - elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes
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(1999), in their treatment of ophidiiform fishes of the world, included the genus Brotula within the family Ophidiidae as one of 4 subfamilies (Brotulinae, Brotulotaeniinae, Ophidiinae, and Neobythitinae).
Family Ophidiidae Brotula clarkae Hubbs, 1944 Pacific Bearded Brotula Chilara taylori (Girard, 1858) Spotted Cusk-eel Dicrolene filamentosa Garman, 1899 Threadfin Cusk-eel Lamprogrammus niger Alcock, 1891 Paperbone Cusk-eel Ophidion scrippsae (Hubbs, 1916) Basketweave Cusk-eel Spectrunculus grandis (Gunther, 1877) Giant Cusk-eel Family Bythitidae Brosphycis marginata (Ayres, 1854) Red Brotula Cataetyx rubrirostris Gilbert, 1890 Rubynose Brotula Grammonus diagrammus (Heller & Snodgrass, 1903) Purple Brotula
Records of the Pacific Bearded Brotula, Brotula clarkae, from Southern California
1 1.28 3 Phylum Chordata Class Chonrichthyes Family Myliobatidae Rhinoptera bonasus 7 8.97 8 Class Osteichthyes Family Clupeidae Opisthonema oglinum 1 1.28 3 Brevoortia tyrannus 1 1.28 1 UnID Clupeidae 2 2.56 2 Family Batrachoididae Opsanus tau 1 1.28 1 Family Ophidiidae Ophidion marginatum 1 1.28 1 Ophidion sp.
Stomach content analysis of cobia, Rachycentron canadum, from lower Chesapeake Bay *
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