and von Bonde, 1924) (off Cape Point) Shortspine tapirfish, Polyacanthonotus rissoanus (De Filippi & Verany, 1857) (off Cape Point to Table Bay) Order Ophidiiformes Family Aphyonidae – aphyonids Barathronus bicolor? Goode and Bean, 1886 (off Cape Point, specimen lost, identification dubious) Family Bythitidae – bythitids or brotulas Cataetyx niki Cohen, 1981 (2 specimens from off the Cape) Lesser orange brotula, Dermatopsoides talboti Cohen, 1966 (Saldanha Bay to Algoa Bay) Family Ophidiidae – cuskeels Slender brotula, Dicrolene multifilis (Alcock, 1889) (off Table Bay and east coast of South Africa) Kingklip, Genypterus capensis (Smith, 1847) (Walvis Bay to Algoa Bay) Penopus microphthalmus (Vaillant, 1888) (one specimen off the Cape) Slender cuskeel, Porogadus miles Goode and bean, 1886 (one specimen off the Cape; relatively common both sides of the Atlantic; also recorded from Indian Ocean) Barbed brotula, Selachophidium guentheri Gilchrist, 1903 (Angola to Mozambique) Order Osmeriformes Family Alepocephalidae – slickheads Alepocephalus australis Barnard 1923 (off Cape Point; apparently widely distributed in temperate waters of southern hemisphere) Atlantic gymnast, English bluntsnout smoothhead, Xenodermichthys copei (Gill, 1884) (common off South Africa) Family Opisthoproctidae – barreleyes Rhynchohyalus natalensis (Gilchrist and von Bonde, 1924) (off Cape Town to Bermuda) Family Microstomatidae Nansenia macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1922) (west of Cape Peninsula; off Natal) Family Bathylagidae Bathylagus bericoides (Borodin, 1929) (off Cape Town, throughout tropical and subtropical seas) Order Perciformes Family Luvaridae – louvar Louvar, Luvarus imperialis Rafinesque, 1810 (All oceans and Mediterranean sea, not reported in polar seas or near equator) Family Blenniidae – blennies Looseskin blenny, Chalaroderma capito (Valenciennes, 1836) (Saldanha Bay to East London) Two-eyed blenny, Chalaroderma ocellata (Gilchrist and Thompson, 1908) ((Saldanha Bay to Port Elizabeth) Horned blenny, Parablennius cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Northern Namibia to Sodwana Bay, Endemic) Piano blenny, Plagiotremus tapeinosoma (Bleeker, 1857) (Indo-Pacific south to False Bay) Maned blenny, Scartella emarginata (Günther, 1861) (Southern Angola to India) Japanese snakeblenny, Xiphasia matsubarai Okada & Suzuki, 1952 (Western Indian Ocean south to False Bay) Snakeblenny, Xiphasia setifer Swainson, 1839 (Red Sea to False Bay) Family Clinidae – klipfishes Lace klipfish, Blennioclinus brachycephalus (Valenciennes, 1836) (Melkboschstrand to Kei River) Snaky klipfish, Blenniophis anguillaris (Valenciennes, 1836) (Lüderitz Bay to East London) Striped klipfish, Blenniophis striatus (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908) (Saldanha Bay to East London) Slender platanna-klipfish, Cancelloxus burrelli Smith, 1961 (Orange River to Algoa Bay) Elongated sand klipfish, Cancelloxus longior Prochazka & Griffiths, 1991 (Both sides of the peninsula) Barbelled klipfish, Cirrhibarbus capensis Valenciennes, 1836 (Lamberts Bay to