The Littoral cusk (''Monothrix polylepis'') is a species of
viviparous brotula
The viviparous brotulas form a family, the Bythitidae, of ophidiiform fishes. They are known as viviparous brotulas as they generally bear live young, although there are indications that some species (at least '' Didymothallus criniceps'') do n ...
known from shallow
reef
A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic component, abiotic processes—deposition (geology), deposition of ...
s off the coast of eastern
Australia. This species grows to a length of
SL. This is currently the only known species in its genus.
References
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Bythitidae
Monotypic fish genera
Fish described in 1897
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