''Timorichthys'' is a

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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 ...

s so far known from the

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and the

Timor Sea The Timor Sea (, , or ) is a relatively shallow sea in the Indian Ocean bounded to the north by the island of Timor with Timor-Leste to the north, Indonesia to the northwest, Arafura Sea to the east, and to the south by Australia. The Sunda Tr ...

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * '' Timorichthys angustus'' J. G. Nielsen,

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& Schwarzhans, 2013Nielsen, J.G., Okamoto, M. & Schwarzhans, W. (2013): A new species of ''Timorichthys'' (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) from the East China Sea. ''Ichthyological Research, doi: 10.1007/s10228-013-0341-3.'' * '' Timorichthys disjunctus'' J. G. Nielsen & Schwarzhans, 2011

References

Bythitidae {{Bythitidae-stub