Three species of Brotula are known from Colombian waters. Brotula clarkae Hubbs, 1944, the largest and the most important species to fisheries, is widely distributed in the American Pacific, being exploited in southwest Colombia where it ls abundant and reaches more than 1 m and 8 kg. Brotula ordwayi Hildebrand & Barton, 1949, is the second species known from theAmerican Pacifico It is relatively rare and small, reaching less than 50 cm, and known only from Costa Rica, Gorgona and Talara (Peru). In the Atlantic there is only one species, B. barbata (Schneider), known from two specimens from Santa Marta, Colombian Caribbean.