Author: Reinhardt, 1831

Lycodes vahli Reinhardt, 1831

Diagnosis: body fairly elongate, its depth 8-10% TL at anal origin, covered with scales to bases of pectoral and pelvic fins, also basal half of unpaired fins, but nearly whole back in front of dorsal fin naked. Pectoral fin 10-12% TL; preanal distance 38-41% TL. Lateral line single, ventral, no midlateral branch. Vertebrae 99-119. Colour: young with several light and narrow cross-bands, disappearing with age; adults uniformly brownish, with 1-3 blackish spots on anterior part of dorsal fin; peritoneum black. Size: to 52 cm, usually 25-30 cm.

Habitat: benthic on muddy bottoms at 150-500 m, with bottom temperatures about 2-6 °C and salinities 34-35°/Oo. Food: polychaetes, small molluscs and crustaceans, ophiurids, gephyreans. Reproduction: eggs demersal, few (27-93), 4.5 mm diameter.

Distribution: coasts of Iceland, south-western part of Barents Sea and along Norwegian coast to Skagerrak and northern part of Kattegat. Elsewhere, south-western Greenland southward to Nova Scotia.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Subspecies

Lycodes vahli vahli. vertebrae 112-119; south-western Greenland to Nova Scotia.

Lycodes vahli gracilis. vertebrae 98-108; north-eastern Atlantic (Clofnam 170.4.1.1).
Eggs, larvae and young stages. Collett, 1903b: 3 | Jensen, 1904b: 13.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Perciformes
Suborder Gobioidei
Family Zoarcidae
Genus Lycodes
Species Lycodes vahli

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Synonym of Lycodes vahlii Reinhardt, 1831

Scientific synonyms and common names

Lycodes vahli Reinhardt, 1831

Synonyms:

Lycodes Vahlii Reinhardt, 1831, Overs. K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Forh., 1830-1831: 18 ('Habitat in Mare Grönlandico, prope Julianehaab, et prope Omenak').
Lycodes vahlii: Reinhardt, 1837, ibid., 1832-1836: Ixxvii; 1838, 7: 153-167, pl. V (also separate, 1837: 71-85, pl. V).

Subspecies:

Lycodes vahli gracilis (M. Sars, 1867)
Lycodes gracilis M. Sars, 1867, Christ. Vidensk. Selsk. Forh., (1866): 40, pl. I (fig. 1-3) (Christiania Fjord).
Lycodes lugubris Lütken, 1880, K. Vidensk. Med. Naturh. Foren. Kj0benh.: 315 (Iceland).
Lycodes vahlii lugubris: Jensen, 1901: 202; 1904b: 13, pl. 11 (fig. 1a-b).
Lycodes vahli gracilis: Jensen, 1901: 202; 1904b: 13 Andriashev, 1954: 305.
Lycodes vahli septentrionalis Knipowitch, 1906, Lycodes und Lycenchelys: 95 (Barents Meer). Syntypes: ZIN no. 13439, 13453, 13455, 13458, 13459, 13461, 1346413467, 14248.
Lycodes vahli septentrionalis: Knipowitch, 1926: 111.

Common names:

none

Andriashev, A. P. 1954. Ryby severnykh morei SSSR. Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR. Moskwa-Leningrad. (English trans. 1964, Jerusalem, IPST, 617 pp., 300 fig.)

Collett, R. 1903b. Meddelelser om Norges Fiske i Aarene 18841901. I . Forh. Vidensk. Selsk., Krist., 1902 (1): 1-121.

Jensen, A. S. 1902. Ichthyologiske Studier. Vidensk. Meddr dansk naturh. Foren., 1901[1902]: 191-215.

Jensen, A. S. 1904b. The North-European and Greenland Lycodinae. Danish Ingolf-Exp., 2 (4): 99 p., 33 fig., 10 pl.

Knipowitch, N. M. 1906. Ichthyologische Untersuchungen im Eismeer. I. Lycodes und Lycenchelys. Zap. imp. Akad. Nauk, (8)19 (1): 130 p., 1 pl., 1 map.

Knipowitch, N. M. 1926. Guide for determination of the Fishes of Barents-Sea, White-Sea and Kara-Sea. Trudy Inst. Izuch. Sev., 27: 1-183, fig. 1-126.

Lütken, C. F. 1880a. Korte Bidrag til nordisk Ichthyographi. III. Grønlands og Island Lycoder. Vidensk. Meddr dansk naturh. Foren., Kjøbenh.: 307-332.

Reinhardt, J. C. H. 1831. [Bidrag til vor Kundskab om Grönlands Fiske] :18-24. In: H. C. Örsted, Overs. K. danske Vidensk. Selsk. Forh. (1830-1831): pp. 1-40 .

Reinhardt, J. C. H. 1835b. [om Lycodes]: pp. 5-7. In: H. C. Örsted, Overs. K danske Vidensk. Selsk. Forh. (183-435): pp. 1-40 .

Reinhardt, J. C. H. 1837b. Ichthyologiske bidrag til den grönlandske fauna. København, pp. 1-114, col. pl. I-VIII .

Sars, M. 1867. Om Lycodes gracilis, en ny norske Fisk. K norske Vidensk. Selsk. Forh., 1866 [1867]: 40-45, pl. I (fig. 1-3).

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