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Leucobrotula adipata

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ2348875 ↗
Source-derived summary

Leucobrotula adipata is a species of false brotula found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. This species grows to a length of 4.5 centimetres (1.8 in) NG. This species is the only known member of its genus.

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Leucobrotula adipata". FishBase. June 2012 version.

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The public source identifies “Leucobrotula adipata” as species of fish. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Leucobrotula, adipata and species.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Leucobrotula, adipata and species providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Leucobrotula adipata”, the useful work is to connect “species of fish” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2348875. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Leucobrotula adipata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.