Bothrocarina is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts.

The two species in this genus are found in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Bothrocarina was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1935 by the Soviet zoologist Evgeni Suvurov when he described the new species Bothrocarina nigrocaudata from the Okhotsk Sea.

[1][2] This genus is classified within the subfamily Lycodinae, one of 4 subfamilies in the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts.

[3] This genus is the sister taxon to Bothrocara, Lycodapus and Lycogrammoides, and these four genera form a clade within the subfamily Lycodinae.