Lycenchelys
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| Lycenchelys | |
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| Lycenchelys verrillii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Zoarcidae |
| Subfamily: | Lycodinae |
| Genus: | Lycenchelys Gill, 1884 |
| Type species | |
| Lycodes muraena | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Lycenchelys is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.[2]

Lycenelchys was first proposed as a genus in 1884 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Gill with Lycodes muraena being designated as the type species in 1920 by David Starr Jordan,[1][3] this species was originally described by the Norwegian zoologist Robert Collett in 1878 with its type locality given as 325 km (202 mi) west-southwest of Bodø in Norway, at a depth of 640 m (2,100 ft).[4] The genus is classified in the subfamily Lycodinae, one of four subfamilies in the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts.[5]
Species
Lycenchelys contains the following species:[6]
- Lycenchelys alba (Vaillant, 1888)
- Lycenchelys albeola Andriashev, 1958
- Lycenchelys albomaculata Toyoshima, 1983
- Lycenchelys alta Toyoshima, 1985
- Lycenchelys antarctica Regan, 1913
- Lycenchelys aratrirostris Andriashev & Permitin, 1968
- Lycenchelys argentina Marschoff, Torno & Tomo, 1977
- Lycenchelys aurantiaca Shinohara & Matsuura, 1998
- Lycenchelys bachmanni Gosztonyi, 1977
- Lycenchelys bellingshauseni Andriashev & Permitin, 1968
- Lycenchelys bullisi Cohen, 1964
- Lycenchelys callista M. E. Anderson, 1995
- Lycenchelys camchatica (Gilbert & Burke, 1912)
- Lycenchelys chauliodus M. E, Anderson, 1995
- Lycenchelys cicatrifer (Garman, 1899)
- Lycenchelys crotalinus (Gilbert, 1890)
- Lycenchelys fedorovi M.., Anderson & Balanov, 2000
- Lycenchelys folletti M. E. Andersonn, 1995
- Lycenchelys hadrogeneia M. E. Anderson, 1995
- Lycenchelys hippopotamus Schmidt, 1950
- Lycenchelys hureaui (Andriashev, 1979)
- Lycenchelys imamurai M.E. Anderson, 2006
- Lycenchelys incisa (Garman, 1899)
- Lycenchelys jordani (Evermann & Goldsborough, 1907)
- Lycenchelys kolthoffi Jensen, 1904
- Lycenchelys lonchoura M. E. Anderson, 1995
- Lycenchelys maculata Toyoshima, 1985
- Lycenchelys makushok Fedorov & Andriashev, 1993
- Lycenchelys maoriensis Andriashev & Fedorov, 1986
- Lycenchelys melanostomias Toyoshima, 1983
- Lycenchelys micropora Andriashev, 1955
- Lycenchelys monstrosa Anderson, 1982
- Lycenchelys muraena (Collett, 1878)
- Lycenchelys nanospinata M. E. Anderson, 1988
- Lycenchelys nigripalatum DeWitt & Hureau, 1979
- Lycenchelys novaezealandiae Anderson & Møller, 2007
- Lycenchelys parini Fedorov, 1995
- Lycenchelys paxillus (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879)
- Lycenchelys pearcyi M. E. Anderson, 1995
- Lycenchelys pentactina M. E. Anderson, 1995
- Lycenchelys pequenoi M. E. Anderson, 1995
- Lycenchelys peruana M. E. Anderson, 1995
- Lycenchelys platyrhina (Jensen, 1902)
- Lycenchelys plicifera Andriashev, 1955
- Lycenchelys polyodon M. E. Anderson & Møller, 2007
- Lycenchelys porifer (Gilbert, 1890)
- Lycenchelys rassi Andriashev, 1955
- Lycenchelys ratmanovi Andriashev, 1955
- Lycenchelys remissaria Fedorov, 1995
- Lycenchelys rosea Toyoshima, 1985
- Lycenchelys ryukyuensis Shinohara & M. E. Anderson, 2007
- Lycenchelys sarsii (Collett, 1871)
- Lycenchelys scaurus (Garman, 1899)
- Lycenchelys squamosa Toyoshima, 1983
- Lycenchelys tohokuensis Anderson & Imamura, 2002
- Lycenchelys tristichodon DeWitt & Hureau, 1979
- Lycenchelys uschakovi Andriashev, 1958
- Lycenchelys verrillii (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1877)
- Lycenchelys vitiazi Andriashev, 1955
- Lycenchelys volki Andriashev, 1955
- Lycenchelys wilkesi M. E. Anderson, 1988
- Lycenchelys xanthoptera M. E. Anderson, 1991