Author: Pietschmann, 1926
Phrynichthys wedli Pietschmann, 1926
Status in World Register of Marine Species:
Accepted name: Bufoceratias wedli (Pietschmann, 1926) (updated 2009-06-25)
Diagnosis (females): esca with low terminal papilla, a posterior filamentous appendage and (except in some juvenile specimens) filamentous, paired anterior and lateral appendages.
Habitat: adults probably benthopelagic. Food, Reproduction: see suborder.
Distribution: more than 30 specimens from tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and a single record from the East Chinese Sea; in Clofnam area, a single specimen from off Madeira.
Eggs, larvae and young stages. Uwate in MS, specimen of 18 mm SL, BMNH 1930.1.12.1101.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.