''Bidenichthys beeblebroxi'' is a species of common reef fish of the family

Bythitidae The viviparous brotulas form a family, the Bythitidae, of ophidiiform fishes. They are known as viviparous brotulas as they generally viviparity, bear live young, although there are indications that some species (at least ''Didymothallus crinicep ...

, and one of three species in the genus '' Bidenichthys''. The species is found in the coastal waters off

North Island The North Island, also officially named Te Ika-a-Māui, is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by the Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest ...

and northern

South Island The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...

, New Zealand. It is a common, uniformly gray-brown fish, ranging from SL long in one study, found in holes beneath rocks and boulders in kelp forest and other reef habitats from the surface down to depths of . The species was described by Paulin in 1995. The species was named after the character Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams' '' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. The common names gray or grey brotula and orange cuskeel were used to describe ''

Bidenichthys consobrinus The grey brotula or orange cuskeel (''Bidenichthys consobrinus'') is a rare species of viviparous brotula found around northern New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consi ...

'' (F. W. Hutton, 1876) prior to Paulin's 1995 redescription of ''B. consobrinus'' and description of ''B. beeblebroxi'', in which Paulin referred to "the common grey brotula, here described as a new species 'B. beeblebroxi'' and Hutton's ''consobrinus''...".

References

Bythitidae Endemic marine fish of New Zealand Taxa named by Christopher David Paulin Fish described in 1995 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy {{Bythitidae-stub