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pale eelpout (Lycodes pallidus)
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Zoarcidae

pale eelpout

Lycodes pallidus

Elongated Eel from the Atlantic Ocean

  • Polar
  • Circumpolar Arctic
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Polar regions
  • Elongated
  • Medium
  • Cold-water fish

pale eelpout is a marine fish of Circumarctic. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 26 cm.

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 ).

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