barbatus, Enchelyopus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:52 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Havana, Cuba. No types known. •Valid as Brotula barbata (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Nielsen & Nybelin 1963:204 [ref. 5094], Arai in Uyeno et al. 1983:223 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:100 [ref. 23100], Nielsen 1990:567 [ref. 16246], Cervigón 1991:166 [ref. 24472], Boschung 1992:75 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:374 [ref. 23827], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:711 [ref. 23897], Aguilera 1998:47 [ref. 24221], Nielsen & Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999:23 [ref. 24448], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:154 [ref. 25013], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:59 [ref. 27192], Nielsen & Robins 2003:970 [ref. 27008], Bunkley-Williams & Williams 2004:100 [ref. 27795], Nelson et al. 2004:91 [ref. 27807], Greenfield 2005:80 [ref. 28204], Garrido-Linares & Acero P. 2006:291, 297 [ref. 28946], Page et al. 2013:94 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:119 [ref. 32972], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:28 [ref. 33341], Nielsen 2016:1952 [ref. 34583], Bauer et al. 2018:[5] 717 [ref. 37062], Robertson et al. 2020:159 [ref. 38098], Caires in Marceniuk et al. 2021:194 [ref. 38945], Fermon et al. 2022:205 [ref. 39448], Carvalho-Filho 2023:79 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Brotula barbata (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Ophidiidae: Brotulinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Florida (U.S.A.) south to Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Senegal south to Angola. IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.