{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Middle Eocene to Present<ref>{{cite journal | last = Sepkoski | first = Jack | author-link = | title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera | journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology | volume = 364 | issue = |page=560 | publisher = | location = | year = 2002 | url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class | doi = | id = | access-date = 2008-01-08 }}</ref> | image = FMIB 45461 Saccogaster maculata, from the Bay of Bengal, 193-276 fathoms; male The female is viviparous.jpeg | image_caption = ''Saccogaster maculata'' | taxon = Saccogaster | authority = Alcock, 1889 | type_species = ''Saccogaster maculata'' | type_species_authority = Alcock 1889 | synonyms = ''Barbuliceps'' <small>Chan, 1966</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = FAO/> }}

'''''Saccogaster''''' is a genus of viviparous brotulas. They are found in the western Atlantic and Indo-Pacific.<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 = OPHIDIIFORM FISHES OF THE WORLD (Order Ophidiiformes) An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform fishes known to date | series = FAO Species Catalogues | volume = 17 | publisher = Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | place = Rome | isbn = 92-5-104375-2 | pages = 108–109}}</ref>

==Species== There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Saccogaster| month = October| year = 2012}}</ref><ref name=Nielsen2012/> * ''Saccogaster brayae'' <small>J. G. Nielsen, Schwarzhans & Cohen, 2012</small><ref name=Nielsen2012>Nielsen, J.G., Schwarzhans, W. & Cohen, D.M. (2012): Revision of ''Hastatobythites'' and ''Saccogaster'' (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with three new species and a new genus. ''Zootaxa, 3579: 1–36.''</ref> * ''Saccogaster hawaii'' <small>Cohen & J. G. Nielsen, 1972</small> * ''Saccogaster horrida'' <small>J. G. Nielsen, Schwarzhans & Cohen, 2012</small><ref name=Nielsen2012/> * ''Saccogaster maculata'' <small>Alcock, 1889</small> * ''Saccogaster nikoliviae'' <small>J. G. Nielsen, Schwarzhans & Cohen, 2012</small><ref name=Nielsen2012/> * ''Saccogaster parva'' <small>Cohen & J. G. Nielsen, 1972</small> * ''Saccogaster staigeri'' <small>Cohen & J. G. Nielsen, 1972</small> * ''Saccogaster tuberculata'' <small>(W. L. Y. Chan, 1966)</small> (Bagbelly cusk)

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