Eelpout
Zoarces americanus
The family of eelpout ( Zoarcidae ) or Gebärfische is a family of Aalmutterverwandten, which is found in all oceans, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Most of the nearly 260 species live in the northern Pacific. There are several endemic species. Three species Sars wolf fish ( Lycenchelys sarsi ) and Vahl's Wolf fish ( Lycodes vahli ) live on the coasts of northern Europe along the coasts of Norway and Iceland, the eelpout ( Zoarces viviparus ) and throughout the North and Baltic Seas.
Three species of the genus Zoarces are ovoviviparous, the other oviparous. Some types operate brood care.
Features
The body of the fish is elongated, the mouth terminal or inferior. Dorsal fin, caudal fin and anal fin are merged to form one continuous Flossensaum. The pelvic fins are absent or stunted; when present, they stand before the pectoral fins. Scales are very small, overgrown with skin or missing. A swim bladder is absent. The animals reach a length of seven centimeters to 1.10 meters.
Genera
- Subfamily Gymnelinae Andriashevia ( Fedorov & Neyelov, 1978)
- Barbapellis Iglésias, Dettai, & Ozouf - Costaz, 2011
- Bilabria ( Schmidt, 1936)
- Davidijordania ( Popov, 1931)
- Eric Andersonia Shinohara & Sakurai, 2006
- Gymnelopsis ( Soldatov, 1922)
- Gymnelus ( Reinhardt, 1834)
- Hadropareia ( Schmidt, 1904)
- Krusensterniella ( Schmidt, 1904)
- Melanostigma ( Günther, 1881)
- Nalbantichthys ( Schultz, 1967)
- Opaeophacus ( Bond y Stone, 1984)
- Seleniolycus ( Anderson, 1988)
- Aiakas ( Gosztonyi, 1977)
- Austrolycus ( Regan, 1913)
- Bothrocara ( Bean, 1890)
- Bothrocarina ( Suvorov, 1935)
- Crossostomus ( Lahille, 1908)
- Dadyanos ( Whitley, 1951)
- Derepodichthys ( Gilbert, 1896)
- Dieidolycus ( Anderson, 1988)
- Eucryphycus ( Anderson, 1988)
- Exechodontes ( DeWitt, 1977)
- Gosztonyia Matallanas, 2009
- Hadropogonichthys ( Fedorov, 1982)
- Iluocoetes ( Jenyns, 1842)
- Japonolycodes ( Shinohara, Sakurai & Machida, 2002)
- Letholycus ( Anderson, 1988)
- Lycenchelys ( Gill, 1884)
- Lycias
- Lycodapus ( Gilbert, 1890)
- Lycodes ( Reinhardt, 1831)
- Lycodichthys ( Pappenheim, 1911)
- Lycodonus ( Goode y Bean, 1883)
- Lycogrammoides ( Soldatov & Lindberg, 1929)
- Lyconema ( Gilbert, 1896)
- Maynea ( Cunningham, 1871)
- Notolycodes ( Gosztonyi, 1977)
- Oidiphorus ( y McAllister Rees, 1964)
- Ophthalmolycus ( Regan, 1913)
- Pachycara ( Zugmayer, 1911)
- Phucocoetes ( Jenyns, 1842)
- Piedrabuenia ( Gosztonyi, 1977)
- Plesienchelys ( Anderson, 1988)
- Pogonolycus (Norman, 1937)
- Puzanovia ( Fedorov, 1975)
- Pyrolycus ( Machida & Hashimoto, 2002)
- Taranetzella ( Andriashev, 1952)
- Thermarces ( Rosenblatt y Cohen, 1986)
- Lycozoarces ( Popov, 1935)
- Azygopterus Andriashev & Makushok, 1955
- Eulophias Smith, 1902
- Neozoarces Steindachner, 1880
- Zoarchias Jordan & Snyder, 1902
- Zoarces ( Cuvier, 1829)