Endangered
Toothed Cuban cusk-eel
Lucifuga dentata
Toothed Cuban cusk-eel is a ray-finned fish in the family Bythitidae (order Ophidiiformes) — Lucifuga dentata, recorded as Endangered and tied to Cuba.
The ray-finned fish
This named form is a ray-finned fish. The public files give taxonomy, a photograph, and a threat category — not a monograph.
Range and habitat
Toothed Cuban cusk-eel is recorded from Cuba.
GBIF currently lists 116 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Toothed Cuban cusk-eel is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Toothed Cuban cusk-eel — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q6414010 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
