page_title: Eelpout
section_title: Genera
hierarchical_section_title: Eelpout / Genera
caption_attribution_description: Two-line eelpout (Bothrocara brunneum) on the Davidson Seamount at 3228 meters depth.
context_page_description: 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.
  They are conventionally placed in the "perciform" assemblage; in fact, the Zoarcoidei seem to be specialized members of the Gasterosteiformes-Scorpaeniformes group of Acanthopterygii.
  The largest member of the family is Zoarces americanus, which may reach 1.1 m in length. Other notable family members include Lycodapus and Gymnelus.
context_section_description: This family contains about 61 genera and 300 species:
   
  
  
   
  Aiakas Gosztonyi, 1977
  Andriashevia Fedorov & Neyelov, 1978
  Argentinolycus Matallanas & Corbella, 2012 
  Austrolycus Regan, 1913
  Barbapellis Iglésias, Dettai, & Ozouf-Costaz, 2012 
  Bellingshausenia Matallanas, 2009
  Bentartia Matallanas, 2010 
  Bilabria Schmidt, 1936
  Bothrocara Bean, 1890
  Bothrocarina Suvorov, 1935
  Crossostomus Lahille, 1908
  Dadyanos Whitley, 1951
  Davidijordania Popov, 1931
  Derepodichthys Gilbert, 1896
  Dieidolycus Anderson, 1988
  Ericandersonia Shinohara & Sakurai, 2006
  Eucryphycus Anderson, 1988
  Eulophias Smith, 1902
  Exechodontes DeWitt, 1977
  Gosztonyia Matallanas, 2009
  Gymnelopsis Soldatov, 1922
  Gymnelus Reinhardt, 1834
  Hadropareia Schmidt, 1904
  Hadropogonichthys Schmidt, 1904
  Iluocoetes Jenyns, 1842
  Japonolycodes Shinohara, Sakurai & Machida, 2002
  Krusensterniella Schmidt, 1904
  Letholycus Anderson, 1988
  Leucogrammolycus Mincarone & Anderson, 2008
  Lycenchelys Gill, 1884
  Lycodapus Gilbert, 1890
   
  Lycodes Reinhardt, 1831
  Lycodichthys Pappenheim, 1911
  Lycodonus Goode & Bean, 1883
  Lycogrammoides Soldatov & Lindberg, 1929
  Lyconema Gilbert, 1896
  Lycozoarces Popov, 1935
  Magadanichthys Shinohara, Nazarkin, Yabe & Chereshnev, 2006
  Maynea Cunningham, 1871
  Melanostigma Günther, 1881
  Nalbantichthys Schultz, 1967
  Neozoarces Steindachner, 1880
  Notolycodes Gosztonyi, 1977
  Oidiphorus McAllister & Rees, 1964
  Opaeophacus Bond & Stein, 1984
  Ophthalmolycus Regan, 1913
  Pachycara Zugmayer, 1911
  Patagolycus Matallanas & Corbella, 2012 
  Petroschmidtia Taranetz & Andriashev, 1934 
  Phucocoetes Jenyns, 1842
  Piedrabuenia Gosztonyi, 1977
  Plesienchelys Anderson, 1988
  Pogonolycus Norman, 1937
  Puzanovia Fedorov, 1975
  Pyrolycus Machida & Hashimoto, 2002
  Santelmoa Matallanas, 2010 
  Seleniolycus Anderson, 1988
  Taranetzella Andriashev, 1952
  Thermarces Rosenblatt & Cohen, 1986
  Zoarces Cuvier, 1829
  Zoarchias Jordan & Snyder, 1902
caption: Bothrocara brunneum
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