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Eelpouts and allies
Zoarcoidei
Zoarcoidei is a suborder of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Perciformes. The suborder includes the wolffishes, gunnels and eelpouts. The suborder includes about 400 species. These fishes predominantly found in the boreal seas of the northern hemisphere but they have colonised the southern hemisphere.
14 branches of this suborder, most-observed first · about 431 known species
Gunnels
familyPholidae
Pricklebacks
familyStichaeidae
Wolffishes
familyAnarhichadidae
Monkeyfaces
familyCebidichthyidae
Eelpouts
familyZoarcidae
Ronquils
familyBathymasteridae
Eel Pricklebacks
familyLumpenidae
Wrymouths
familyCryptacanthodidae
Quillfishes
familyPtilichthyidae
Rearspined Pricklebacks
familyOpisthocentridae
Prowfishes
familyZaproridae
Kissing Eelpouts
familyNeozoarcidae
Graveldivers
familyScytalinidae
Spinous Eelpouts
familyEulophiidae
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 1303564.