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Zoarcidae
pale eelpout
Lycodes pallidus
Elongated Eel from the Atlantic Ocean
pale eelpout is a marine fish of Circumarctic. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 26 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Zoarcidae
- Genus
- Lycodes
- Maximum length
- 26 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Circumarctic (Ref. 11954 ). Northeast Atlantic: northeast Greenland, Jan Mayen Island, northern coasts of Iceland, Faroes-Shetland slope, northern part of Barents Sea, White Sea and around Spitsbergen. Northwest Atlantic: Arctic Canada to Labrador and Gulf of St. Lawrence; possibly to Cape Cod in Massachusetts, USA (Ref. 7251 ). Arctic Ocean: Kara Sea, western part of Laptev Sea, Beaufort Sea and Arctic Canada. Subspecies(?) Lycodes pallidus marisalbi in White Sea only (Ref. 4695 ).

