[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Pisces
     Class Osteichthyes Huxley, 1880 - bony fishes see [unranked] Euteleostomi
       Order Perciformes Rafinesque, 1810 - perches
         Family Zoarcidae - eelpouts
           Genus Lycodes Reinhardt, 1830-1831[1831]
             01 Lycodes adolfi Nielsen & Fosså, 1993
             02 Lycodes esmarkii Collett, 1875 - Esmark's ellpout
             03 Lycodes eudipleurostictus Jensen, 1902
             04 Lycodes frigidus Collett, 1879
             05 Lycodes jugoricus Knipowitsch, 1906 - shulupaoluk
             06 Lycodes lavalaei Vladykov & Tremblay, 1936 - Newfoundland eelpout
             07 Lycodes luetkenii Collett, 1880
             08 Lycodes microcephalus Jensen, 1902 see Pachycara microcephalum (Jensen, 1902)
             09 Lycodes pallidus Collett, 1879 - pale eelpout
             10 Lycodes polaris (Sabine, 1824) - Canadian eelpout
             11 Lycodes reticulatus Reinhardt, 1835 - arctic eelpout
             12 Lycodes rossi Malmgren, 1865 - threespot eelpout
             13 Lycodes sagittarius McAllister, 1976 - archer eelpout
             14 Lycodes seminudus Reinhardt, 1837
             15 Lycodes squamiventer Jensen, 1904
             16 Lycodes terraenovae Collett, 1896
             17 Lycodes vahlii Reinhardt, 1831 - Vahl's eelpout