Animalia > Chordata > Ophidiiformes > Ophidiidae > Brotula > Brotula barbata

Brotula barbata (Deep water soapfish; Brotula; Bearded brotula; Atlantic seasnail; Atlantic bearded brotula)

Synonyms: Enchelyopus barbatus
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States

Predators

Carcharhinus plumbeus (Thickskin shark)[1]
Squatina dumeril (Atlantic angelshark)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Gonocerca crassa[2]
Lissoloma brotulae[1]
Microbothriorhynchus coelorhynchi[2]
Rhadinorhynchus pristis[2]
Tubulovesicula alviga[2]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0