• Grammonus Gill, T.N. in Goode, G.B. & Bean, T.H. 1896. Oceanic ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. Special Bulletin. United States National Museum 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553, Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26, 123 pls [317].

  Type species:

   Oligopus ater Risso, 1810 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, circumglobal.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19)

General References

Nielsen, J.G., Cohen, D.M., Markle, D.F. & Robins, C.R. 1999. Ophidiiform Fishes of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125 Vol. 18. 178 pp.

Nielsen. J.G. 1999. Families Carapidae, Ophidiidae, Bythitidae, Aphionidae. pp. 1978-1985 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068.

History of changes

• Grammonus robustus Smith, H.M. & Radcliffe, L. in Radcliffe, L. 1913. Descriptions of seven new genera and thirty-one new species of fishes of the families Brotulidae and Carapidae from the Philippine Islands and the Dutch East Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 44(1948): 135-176 pls 7-17 [168, pl. 13 (4)].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 74149, between Cebu and Leyte, Philippines, 189 fathoms. [10°38'00"N, 124°13'08"E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Off Townsville, QLD (17°55'S,147°05°E) and Marian Plateau, north of Saumarez Reef to southern Coral Sea, QLD (23°20'S, 152°40'E); tropical, Indo-west Pacific.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 45-351 m.

General References

Nielsen, J.G., Cohen, D.M., Markle, D.F. & Robins, C.R. 1999. Ophidiiform Fishes of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125 Vol. 18. 178 pp. [104]

Nielsen, J. G. & Cohen, D. M. 2004. Grammonus thielei (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) -- a new bythitid cavefish from off Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 20: 83-86 [85]

Nielsen. J.G. 1999. Families Carapidae, Ophidiidae, Bythitidae, Aphionidae. pp. 1978-1985 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068. [1984] (as Oligopus robustus)

Common Name References

Fishbase 2004. Fishbase at. http://www.fishbase.org/Summary. (26 September 2011) (Humpback Cusk)

Yamada, U., Shirai, S., Irie, T., Tokimura, M., Deng, S. Zheng, Y., Li, C., Kim, Y.U. & Kim, Y.S. 1995. Names and illustrations of fishes from the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. Tokyo, Japan : Overseas Fishery Cooperation Foundation 288 pp. (Humpback Brotula)

History of changes