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Lycodes raridens Taranetz & Andriashev, 1937. Marbled Eelpout or Sparse-tooth Lycod. To 70 cm (27.6 in)
TL. Western Bering Sea and Commander Islands to Okhotsk Sea; Chukchi and Bering seas to Bristol
Bay, and one record north of Near Islands, western Aleutian Islands. Benthic, at depths of 8–360 m
(26–1,181 ft). All in Mecklenburg et al. (2002). Maximum depth of 525 m (1,722 ft) was reported for
L. raridens wintering off the shelf in the Okhotsk Sea (Kim Sen Tok 2001).
*Lycodes reticulatus Reinhardt, 1835. Arctic eelpout. To 76 cm (29.9 in) TL (Morosova 1982). Arctic Canada
to Greenland and Gulf of St. Lawrence, and east to Barents, Kara, and Laptev seas. Records nearest to
our area are from just east of the Alaska–Yukon border in the Beaufort Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Benthic, at depths of 20–930 m (66–3,051 ft; Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Lycodes rossi Malmgren, 1865. Threespot Eelpout. To 31 cm (12.3 in) TL (Andriashev 1954). Greenland
and Norwegian seas to Kara Sea; Chukchi and Beaufort seas off Alaska east to Canadian Arctic at Dease
Strait (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic, at depths of 42–365 m (138–1,197 ft), except juveniles as
shallow as 9 m (29 ft; Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Lycodes sagittarius McAllister, 1976. Archer Eelpout. To 27.8 cm (10.9 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Beaufort Sea, Alaska; Northwest Territories, Canada; and Kara Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic,
at depths of 335–600 m (1,099–1,968 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Andriashev in Whitehead
et al. 1986).
Lycodes seminudus Reinhardt, 1837. Longear Eelpout. To 51.7 cm (20.3 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Arctic Ocean from Beaufort Sea, Alaska to Norwegian and Kara Seas (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic,
at depths of 130–1,400 m (426–4,593 ft; Andriashev in Whitehead et al. 1986).
Lycodes soldatovi Taranetz & Andriashev, 1935. Dipline Eelpout. To 80 cm (31.5 in) TL (Balanov et al.
2004). Okhotsk and Japan seas to Bering Sea (Lindberg and Krasyukova 1975). One record from Alaska
(Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Balanov et al. (2004) question whether this species occurs in the Sea of Japan.
Benthic, at depths of 154–1,030 m (505–3,379 ft; Sheiko and Fedorov 2000).
Lycodes squamiventer Jensen, 1904. Scalebelly Eelpout. To 26 cm (10.2 in) TL. Beaufort Sea off Alaska to
Norwegian Sea. Benthic, at depths of 357–1,808 m (1,171–5,932 ft). All in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Lycodes turneri Bean, 1879. Estuarine Eelpout or Polar Eelpout. To 64 cm (25.2 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al.
2002). Beaufort and Chukchi seas to Bristol Bay in the eastern Bering Sea and to about Cape Olyutorskiy
in the western Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic, at depths of 10–125 m (33–410 ft) (min.:
Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Allen and Smith 1988). The AFS–ASIH fish names committee (Nelson et
al. 2004) calls this fish the Polar Eelpout, the name we prefer for L. polaris.
Lyconema barbatum Gilbert, 1896. Bearded Eelpout. To 18 cm (7.1 in) TL (Allen et al. 2002). Northern
Oregon (45°00'N, 124°23'W; A. Cramer, pers. comm. to M. L.) to between Islas San Benito and Isla
Cedros (28°17'N, 115°28'W), central Baja California (SIO 71-121). Published reports of occurrence
in the Bering Sea are mistaken (Mecklenburg et al. 2002:676). Benthic, at depths of 45–400 m (148–
1,312 ft) (min.: SCCWRP; max.: Wakefield 1990).
Melanostigma pammelas Gilbert, 1896. Midwater Eelpout or Pacific Softpout. To 12.2 cm (4.8 in) SL (SIO
64-1027), 13.3 cm (5.2 in) TL (Lancraft 1982). Off Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia (Grinols
1966) to Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico (Anderson 1994). Not documented from Alaska (Mecklenburg et
al. 2002). Mesopelagic and possibly bathypelagic, collected in nets towed from 97 m (318 ft) to as deep
as 2,012 m (6,601 ft; Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Nalbantichthys elongatus Schultz, 1967. Thinskin Eelpout. To 13.8 cm (5.4 in) TL (Springer and Anderson
1997). Bering Sea near western Aleutian Islands (Schultz 1967, Anderson 1984) at positions estimated
and plotted in Mecklenburg et al. (2002). Benthic, at depths of 300–520 m (984–1,706 ft) (min.: Schultz
1967; max.: Anderson 1984).