Lycodes polaris
Description
Lycodes polaris (Sabine, 1824).
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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Zoarcidae
- Genus
- Lycodes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Sabine
- Species
- polaris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lycodes polaris (Sabine, 1824) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Lynghammar, A., Johannesen, E., Byrkjedal, I., Christiansen, J. S., Dolgov, A. V., Karamushko, O. V., Mecklenburg, T. A., Moller, P. R., Steinke, D. & Wienerrolther, R. M. (2018) Marine Fishes of the Arctic Region. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyrl.
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.
- Coad, B. W. & Reist, J. D. (Eds.). (2018) Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
- Coad, B. W. (1995) Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes. Canadian Museum of Nature and Canadian Sportfishing Productions Inc., Waterdown.
- Sheiko, B. A. & Fedorov, V. V. (2000) Chapter 1. Class Cephalaspidomorphi - Lampreys. Class Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes. Class Holocephali - Chimaeras. Class Osteichthyes - Bony fishes. In: Catalog of Vertebrates of Kamchatka and Adjacent Waters. Kamchatsky Pechatny Dvor, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, pp. 7 - 69 [In Russian.]