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Class: Teleostei
Order: Perciformes/Zoarcoidei
Family: Zoarcidae Eelpouts
Subfamily: Lycodinae
Genus: Lycenchelys

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Scientific Name English Name Distribution Max. Length (cm) Year
Lycenchelys alba Northeast Atlantic 26.7 SL 1888
Lycenchelys albeola Northwest Pacific 18.4 SL 1958
Lycenchelys albomaculata Northwest Pacific 43.8 SL 1983
Lycenchelys alta Northwest Pacific 12.3 SL 1985
Lycenchelys antarctica Southern Ocean and Atlant 24.8 SL 1913
Lycenchelys aratrirostris Southern Ocean 21.9 SL 1968
Lycenchelys argentina Southern Ocean 26 TL 1977
Lycenchelys aurantiaca Northwest Pacific 13.6 SL 1998
Lycenchelys bachmanni Southwest Atlantic 31.5 SL 1977
Lycenchelys bellingshauseni Southern Ocean 26.6 SL 1968
Lycenchelys bullisi Western Central Atlantic 17.6 SL 1964
Lycenchelys callista Eastern Pacific 20.3 TL 1995
Lycenchelys camchatica North Pacific 14.5 SL 1912
Lycenchelys chauliodus Southeast Pacific 1995
Lycenchelys cicatrifer Eastern Pacific 26.2 SL 1899
Lycenchelys crotalinus Snakehead eelpout Eastern Pacific 42.2 SL 1890
Lycenchelys fedorovi Northwest Pacific 42 TL 2000
Lycenchelys folletti Eastern Central Pacific 15.8 TL 1995
Lycenchelys hadrogeneia Southeast Pacific 18.2 TL 1995
Lycenchelys hippopotamus Northwest Pacific 22.1 SL 1950
Lycenchelys hureaui Southern Ocean 26.6 TL 1979
Lycenchelys imamurai Southeast Pacific 21.2 SL 2006
Lycenchelys incisa Eastern Pacific 24 SL 1899
Lycenchelys jordani Shortjaw eelpout Eastern Pacific 33 SL 1907
Lycenchelys kolthoffi Checkered wolf eel Arctic, Northwest to Nort 23.2 SL 1904
Lycenchelys lonchoura Southeast Pacific 37 TL 1995
Lycenchelys maculata Northwest Pacific 29.8 TL 1985
Lycenchelys makushok Northwest Pacific 14.0 TL 1993
Lycenchelys maoriensis Southwest Pacific 1986
Lycenchelys melanostomias Northwest Pacific 22.7 TL 1983
Lycenchelys micropora North Pacific 1955
Lycenchelys monstrosa Eastern Central Pacific 24.2 SL 1982
Lycenchelys muraena Moray wolf eel Arctic 22.6 SL 1878
Lycenchelys nanospinata Southern Ocean 18.5 SL 1988
Lycenchelys nigripalatum Southern Ocean 28 SL 1979
Lycenchelys novaezealandiae Southwestern Pacific. 2007
Lycenchelys parini Parin's wolf eelpout Northwest Pacific 16.4 TL 1995
Lycenchelys paxillus Common wolf eel Western Atlantic 17.5 SL 1879
Lycenchelys pearcyi Eastern Pacific 38.5 TL 1995
Lycenchelys pentactina Southeast Pacific 15.3 TL 1995
Lycenchelys pequenoi Southeast Pacific 19.3 TL 1995
Lycenchelys peruana Southeast Pacific 10.5 TL 1995
Lycenchelys platyrhina Arctic 14.6 SL 1902
Lycenchelys plicifera Northwest Pacific 18.8 SL 1955
Lycenchelys polyodon Southwestern Pacific. 2007
Lycenchelys porifer Eastern Pacific 29.9 SL 1890
Lycenchelys rassi North Pacific 22.4 SL 1955
Lycenchelys ratmanovi North Pacific 18.5 SL 1955
Lycenchelys remissaria Shifted wolf eelpout Northwest Pacific 21 TL 1995
Lycenchelys rosea North Pacific 23.5 SL 1985
Lycenchelys ryukyuensis Northwest Pacific 17.0 SL 2007
Lycenchelys sarsii Sar's wolf eel North Atlantic 20 TL 1871
Lycenchelys scaurus Eastern Pacific 19.2 SL 1899
Lycenchelys squamosa Northwest Pacific 22.3 SL 1983
Lycenchelys tohokuensis Northwest Pacific 27 SL 2002
Lycenchelys tristichodon Southern Ocean 30.4 SL 1979
Lycenchelys uschakovi Northwest Pacific 25.4 SL 1958
Lycenchelys verrillii Wolf eelpout Western Atlantic 25 TL 1877
Lycenchelys vitiazi Northwest Pacific 8.5 SL 1955
Lycenchelys volki North Pacific 20.5 SL 1955
Lycenchelys wilkesi Southern Ocean 24.9 SL 1988
Lycenchelys xanthoptera Southern Ocean 27 TL 1991



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