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Bythitidae
Slimy cuskeel
Brosmophyciops pautzkei
Body covered in thick granular mucus
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Oceania
- Southeast Asia
- Elongated
- Compressed cross-section
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Oceania
Elongated
SmallSlimy cuskeel is known from Indo-Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in deep water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cusk-eels
- Family
- Bythitidae
- Genus
- Brosmophyciops
- Maximum length
- 7.5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea to Samoa and the Austral Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Rowley Shoals. Recorded from the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Thailand (Ref. 34024 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
