Dibranchus
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Dibranchus is a fish genus in the family Ogcocephalidae
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Ogcocephalidae
Ogcocephalidae is a family of bottom-dwelling, specially adapted fish. They are sometimes referred to as batfishes or anglerfishes. They are found in deep, lightless waters of the Atlantic, Indian and western Pacific Oceans....
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Species
- Dibranchus accinctus Bradbury, 1999.
- Atlantic batfish, Dibranchus atlanticus PetersWilhelm PetersWilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...
, 1876. - Dibranchus cracens Bradbury, McCosker & Long, 1999.
- Dibranchus discors Bradbury, McCosker & Long, 1999.
- Dibranchus erinaceus (Garman, 1899).
- Dibranchus hystrix Garman, 1899.
- Dibranchus japonicus Amaoka & Toyoshima, 1981.
- Dibranchus nasutus (CuvierGeorges CuvierGeorges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier , known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist...
, 1829). - Dibranchus nudivomer (Garman, 1899).
- Dibranchus sparsus (Garman, 1899).
- Dibranchus spinosus (Garman, 1899).
- Dibranchus spongiosa (Gilbert, 1890).
- Dibranchus tremendus Bradbury, 1999.
- Dibranchus velutinus Bradbury, 1999.