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Eelpouts
Zoarcidae
The eelpouts are the ray-finned fish family Zoarcidae. As the common name suggests, they are somewhat eel-like in appearance, with elongated bodies and the dorsal and anal fins continuous with the caudal fin. All of the roughly 300 species are marine and mostly bottom-dwelling, some at great depths.
4 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 315 known species

Lycodinae
subfamilyLycodinae

Typical Eelpouts
subfamilyZoarcinae

Pouts
subfamilyGymnelinae

Lycozoarcinae
subfamilyLycozoarcinae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 60631.