Brotula Cuvier [G.] 1829:335 Fem. Enchelyopus barbatus Bloch & Schneider 1801. Type by monotypy. •Valid as Brotula Cuvier 1829 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:187 [ref. 7348], Cohen & Nielsen 1978:11 [ref. 881], Machida in Masuda et al. 1984:99 [ref. 6441], Nielsen & Cohen 1986:346 [ref. 5700], Paxton et al. 1989:311 [ref. 12442], Nielsen & Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999:23 [ref. 24448], Nielsen 1999:1980 [ref. 24753], Nielsen & Robins 2003:967 [ref. 27008], Greenfield 2005:80 [ref. 28204], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:205 [ref. 28944], Hoese et al. 2006:558 [ref. 29051], Carnevale & Johnson 2015:778 [ref. 34391], Fricke et al. 2018:83 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:39 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:162 [ref. 36444]). Current status: Valid as Brotula Cuvier 1829. Ophidiidae: Brotulinae.