multibarbata, Brotula Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1846:251, Pl. 111 (fig. 2) [Fauna Japonica Parts 10-14; ref. 4374] Shimabara, Ariake Sea, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Lectotype: RMNH 3468. Paralectotypes: RMNH D1402 (stuffed), D2238 (1 stuffed), D2268 (1 stuffed), 3467 (1); ZMB 2326 (1, dry). Type catalog: Paepke 2001:330 [ref. 25566]. Lectotype selected by Boeseman 1947:182 [ref. 12876]. •Valid as Brotula multibarbata Temminck & Schlegel 1846 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:187 [ref. 7348], Dor 1984:58 [ref. 29757], Machida in Masuda et al. 1984:99 [ref. 6441], Nielsen & Cohen 1986:346 [ref. 5700], Allen & Swainston 1988:38 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:311 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:48 [ref. 14125], Winterbottom et al. 1989:14 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:52 [ref. 15987], Chen & Shao 1991:11 [ref. 16679], Baranes & Golani 1993:304 [ref. 22372], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:217 [ref. 24016], Francis 1993:158 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:15 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:81 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:62 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:125 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:28 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:52 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:52 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:66 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:100 [ref. 24106], Nielsen & Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999:24 [ref. 24448], Nielsen 1999:1982 [ref. 24753], Randall 1999:8 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:85 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:436 [ref. 25086], Nielsen in Randall & Lim 2000:596 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:123 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:8 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:23 [ref. 25847], Shinohara et al. 2001:307 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:436 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:206, 537 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:25 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S99 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:614 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:8 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3317 [ref. 27945], Greenfield 2005:80 [ref. 28204], Randall 2005:65 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:243 [ref. 28379], Randall 2007:117 [ref. 30952], Prokofiev 2007:168 [ref. 34654], Fricke et al. 2009:27 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:77 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:366 [ref. 31242], Ho & Shao 2011:37 [ref. 31432], Allen & Erdmann 2012:128 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:49 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:32 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:172 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:313 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:83 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:39 [ref. 36273], Nakae in Kimura et al. 2018:60 [ref. 36460], Arndt & Fricke 2019:25 [ref. 36883], Brown et al. 2019:162 [ref. 36444] as Brotula cf. multibarbata, Eagderi et al. 2019:34 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 10 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:73 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:322 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:30 [ref. 37637], Ali et al. 2021:196 [ref. 38674], Wada et al. 2021:36 [ref. 38521], Ali et al. 2022:196 [ref. 39462], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:91 [ref. 41223], Nielsen & Uiblein 2022:246 [ref. 39706], Murase et al. 2023:38 [ref. 40935], Allen & Erdmann 2024:142 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:82 [ref. 41255], Wong & Chen 2024:10 [ref. 41401]). Current status: Valid as Brotula multibarbata Temminck & Schlegel 1846. Brotulidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Korea, southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Western Australia, New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island. Saint Helena population probably based on a distinct species. Habitat: marine.
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