Species: Ogilbia cayorum, Key Brotula

Ogilbia cayorum Evermann & Kendall, 1898

Key Brotula

Head large, deep; narrow (<7% of SL) between small eyes; front nostril is immediately above the top lip; body elongate, compressed, slender, decreasing to slender tail base; preopercle with 3 pores at lower rear corner; opercle with 1 flat spine with 1 sharp point at upper angle; 2-4 long gill rakers; top jaw bone expanded vertically at rear, with a knob at lower rear corner; jaw teeth pointed, in bands; no central tooth patch at bottom of gill arches; dorsal fin 66-76; anal fin 50-57; each pelvic fin consists of 1 short filament, inserted under edge of gill cover; pectoral fin <16% of SL; dorsal and anal fins separate from tail; lateral line indistinct, continuous, complete; scales small, imbedded, covering body, none on operculum, in 4-6 rows on cheek; male sex organ with 2 pairs of simple triangular flap-like pseudoclaspers, outer pair twice size of inner pair.

Light to pale brown, fins same color as body.

Reaches 7 cm.

Lives in grass and algal beds.

Depth range: 0-8 m.

Bermuda to the Gulf of Mexico.