''Brotula multibarbata'', commonly known as the goatsbeard brotula, is a species of

cusk-eel The cusk-eel family, Ophidiidae, is a group of marine bony fishes in the Ophidiiformes order. The scientific name is from the Greek ''ophis'' meaning "snake", and refers to their eel-like appearance. True eels diverged from other ray-finned fi ...

in the genus '' Brotula''. It lives in the Indo-Pacific, in depths of up to . It is dark brown with a submarginal black band and narrow white border on the dorsal and anal fins versus greenish to orange brown with orange-bordered dorsal and anal fins, and it grows up to be around . It has a carnivorous diet, and it is oviparous.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q1041503 Ophidiidae Fish described in 1846