{{Short description|Tribe of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Bidenichthys consobrinus (Grey botula).gif | image_caption = Grey Brotula ''(Bidenichthys consobrinus)'' | taxon = Brosmophycini | authority = Gill, 1862 }}
'''Brosmophycini''' is a tribe of viviparous brotula, one of two tribes in the subfamily Brosmophycinae. They are distinguished from the other brosmophycin tribe, the Dinematichthyini, by having a male intromittent organ which has no ossified parts, a scale-covered body and well developed gill rakers.<ref name = Cohen>{{cite book | author1 = Daniel M. Cohen | author2 = Jørgen G. Nielsen | name-list-style = amp | year = 1978 | title = Guide to the Identification of Genera of the Fish Order Ophidiiformes With a Tentative Classification of the Order | url = https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/Circulars/CIRC417.pdf | series = NOAA Technical Report NMFS Circular | volume = 417 | publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Marine Fisheries Service}}</ref>
==Genera== The following genera are classified as being members of the tribe Brosmophycini:<ref name = FAO>{{cite book | author1 = Jørgen G. Nielsen | author2 = Daniel M. Cohen | author3 = Douglas F. Markle | author4 = C. Richard Robins | name-list-style = amp | year = 1999 | title = FAO Species Catalogue Volume 18 Ophidiiform Fishes of the World (Order Ophidiiformes) An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform fishes known to date | publisher = Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome | isbn = 9251043752 | page = 116}}</ref>
* ''Bidenichthys'' * ''Brosmodorsalis'' * ''Brosmophyciops'' * ''Brosmophycis'' * ''Eusurculus'' * ''Fiordichthys'' * ''Lucifuga'' * ''Melodichthys''
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Category:Bythitidae Category:Taxa named by Theodore Gill