Lycodes polaris (Sabine, 1824)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 184

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5608135

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FF26-FF02-98EA-FC78FBEB34EC

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Plazi

scientific name

Lycodes polaris (Sabine, 1824)
status

 

Lycodes polaris (Sabine, 1824) View in CoL .

Polar Eelpout or Canadian Eelpout. To a least 33.3 cm (13.1 in) TL ( Mecklenburg et al. 2018). Nearly circumpolar; Beaufort and Chukchi Seas to eastern Bering Sea between Saint Matthew Island, and Saint Lawrence Island to western Bering Sea at Glubokaya Bay; as far north as 79°55’N, 85°20’W in the high Canadian Arctic ( Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic; depth: 4 to more than 300 m (13–984 ft) (min.: Møller in Coad and Møller 2018; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2016). In the past, this species, Lycodes mucosus , and Lycodes turneri were often been confused. The American Fisheries Society (Nelson et al. 2004) calls this fish the Canadian Eelpout, but its range is nearly circumpolar and Canadian (e.g., McAllister 1990, Coad 1995) and Russian scientists (e.g., Sheiko and Fedorov 2000), as well as many U.S. scientists (e.g., Mecklenburg et al. 2002), call it the Polar Eelpout. With the specific epithet polaris, it is logical and less confusing to use the name Polar Eelpout.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Zoarcidae

Genus

Lycodes

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