cusk-eels
ophidiidae latin

Barathrodemus is a genus of cusk-eels found in deep waters.

The family was placed in a different order of fish, the Ophidiiformes (cusk-eels and brotulas).

Benthocometes is a genus of cusk-eels.

Spectrunculus is a genus of cusk-eels found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Juvenile cusk-eels have been found to associate with Phormosoma placenta, either hiding underneath it or between the long spines on its aboral surface.

However, they can be distinguished from true eels of the order Anguilliformes by the ventral fins, which are developed into a forked barbel-like organ below the mouth in the cusk-eels; in the true eels by contrast they are never well-developed and usually missing entirely.

J.G. Nielsen, D.M. Cohen, D.M. Markle, C.R. Robins, Ophidiiform fishes of the world (Order Ophidiiformes): An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform fishes known to date (FAO, 1999)

Ophidion josephi is a fish species in the family Ophidiidae.

Ophidion barbatum - fish of the family Ophidiidae.

Abyssobrotula galatheae is a species of cusk eel in the family Ophidiidae, and the only species in its genus.

Typhlonus nasus, a cusk-eel (see Ophidiidae)