Lycenchelys muraena
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| Lycenchelys muraena | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Zoarcidae |
| Genus: | Lycenchelys |
| Species: | L. muraena |
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| Lycenchelys muraena (Collett, 1878 | |
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Lycenchelys muraena, the moray wolf eel, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. It is found in the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans.
Lycenchelys muraena was first formally described as Lycodes muraena 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).[2] In 1920 David Starr Jordan designated this Lycodes muraena as the type species of the genus Lycenchelys,[3] which had been proposed by Theodore Gill in 1884 but which Gill had not given a type species for.[4] The specific name is the Scientific name for moray eel and is a reference to the slender, eel-shaped body of this species.[5]