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Vahl's eelpout

Lycodes gracilis

Classification

Family
Zoarcidae

Lycodes vahlii, Vahl's eelpout or the checker eelpout, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. It is native to coasts of Northern Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy Lycodes vahlii was first formally described in 1831 by the Norwegian zoologist Johannes Christopher Hagemann Reinhardt with its type locality given as Julianehåb in Greenland.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 5