eelpout

1 marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas [syn: pout]

2 elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth [syn: burbot, ling, cusk, Lota lota]

English

Etymology

Old English aele-puta (eel + pout)

Noun

eelpout (or eel-pout)

1. A marine fish of the family Zoarcidae.
2. A yellow flower of uncertain type, possibly the eel-ware.

Synonyms

• dogfish
• fish doctor
• slipskin
• unernak

Translations

• Dutch: puitalen
• German: Aalmuttern
• Lithuanian: netikrosios vėgėlės
• Polish: węgorzycowate
• Serbian: živorodac

See also

• Wikipedia article on eelpouts

The eelpouts are a family (Zoarcidae) of perciform ray-finned fish. As the name suggests, they are somewhat eel-like in appearance, with elongate bodies and the dorsal and anal fins continuous with the caudal fin. All of the approximately 220 species are marine, mostly bottom-dwelling, some at great depths.

The largest member of the family is the ocean pout Zoarces americanus, which may reach 1.1 meter.

Other names for family members include unernak, slipskin, fish doctor, burbot, and lawyer.

Genera

• Aiakas
• Allolepsis
• Andriashevia
• Austrolycus
• Bilabria Schmidt, 1936.
  • Bilabria ornata (Soldatov, 1922).
• Bothrocara
• Bothrocarina
• Crossostomus Lahille, 1908.
  • Crossostomus chilensis (Regan, 1913).
  • Crossostomus fasciatus (Lönnberg, 1905).
  • Crossostomus sobrali Lloris and Rucabado, 1989.
• Dadyanos Whitley, 1951.
  • Dadyanos insignis (Steindachner, 1898).
• Davidijordania Popov, 1931.
  • Davidijordania brachyrhyncha (Schmidt, 1904).
  • Davidijordania jordaniana Schmidt, 1936.
  • Davidijordania lacertina (Pavlenko, 1910).
  • Davidijordania poecilimon (Jordan and Fowler, 1902).
• Derepodichthys
• Dieidolycus
• Ericandersonia
• Eucryphycus
• Exechodontes
• Gymnelopsis
• Gymnelus
• Hadropareia
• Hadropogonichthys
• Iluocoetes
• Japonolycodes Shinohara, Sakurai and Machida, 2002.
  • Japonolycodes abei (Matsubara, 1936).
• Krusensterniella
• Letholycus
• Lycenchelys
  • Lycenchelys novaezealandiae Anderson & Moller, 2007.
  • Lycenchelys polyodon Anderson & Moller, 2007.
• Lycodapus
• Lycodes
• Lycodichthys
• Lycodonus
• Lycogrammoides
• Lyconema
• Lycozoarces
• Magadanichthys
• Maynea Cunningham, 1871.
  • Maynea puncta (Jenyns, 1842).
• Melanostigma
  • Limp eelpout, Melanostigma gelatinosum
• Nalbantichthys
• Notolycodes
• Oidiphorus
• Opaeophacus
• Ophthalmolycus
• Pachycara
• Petroschmidtia
• Phucocoetes
• Piedrabuenia
• Plesienchelys
• Pogonolycus
• Puzanovia
• Pyrolycus Machida and Hashimoto, 2002.
  • Pyrolycus manusanus Machida and Hashimoto, 2002.
  • Pyrolycus moelleri Anderson, 2006.
• Seleniolycus Anderson, 1988.
  • Seleniolycus laevifasciatus (Torno, Tomo and Marschoff, 1977).
• Taranetzella
• Thermarces
• Zoarces
  • Ocean pout, Zoarces americanus

References

• New genus Ericandersonia