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Anarhichadidae wolffishes use their large teeth to feed on a diet of shelled invertebrates such as crabs, starfishes and sea urchins, as well as other prey, The peak mating season for wolffish is
September to October. The male wolffish will guard the eggs 3–9 months until they hatch.
766:"Order Perciformes (Part 11): Suborder Cottoidea: Infraorder Zoarcales: Families: Anarhichadidae, Neozoarcidae, Eulophias, Stichaeidae, Lumpenidae, Ophistocentridae, Pholidae, Ptilichthyidae, Zaproridae, Cryptacanthodidae, Cebidichthyidae, Scytalinidae and Bathymasteridae"
483:. There is a single pair of nostrils. The scales, if present, are cycloid, tiny and do not overlap. There are well developed. movement sensitive sensory canals on the head and as the fish ages the pores grow very large. There are 1 or 2
491:. There are robust conical teeth in the front of the jaws and large molar like teeth to the rear of those. The gill membranes are joined to the isthmus and the gill openings are set widely apart. There is no
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Anarhichadidae wolffishes, in particular two
Atlantic species, the spotted wolffish and the Atlantic wolffish, are targeted by commercial fisheries. The flesh is used for food and the skin to make leather.
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Anarhichadidae wolfishes prefer cooler waters and are found in the northern parts of the North
Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans as well as in the Arctic Ocean. They are
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which means "to climb or scramble up". This may be an allusion to the ancient belief that wolffishes left the water and climbed up on the rocks.
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Anarhichadidae wolfishes have a largely compressed and, in the genus
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Anarhichadidae was first proposed as a family in 1832 by the French
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starts at the head and has many flexible spines and soft rays. The
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occurring in shallow to moderately deep and cold seas.
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Anarhichadidae contains two genera and five species:
794:; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.).
964:“The Wolffishes (Family : Anarhichadidae).”
831:"Family Anarhichadidae Bonaparte 1846 wolffishes"
1223:
770:The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database
245:Anarhichadidae is derived from the name of its
229:Zoarcales within the suborder Cottoidei of the
939:"A compendium of fossil marine animal genera"
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882:"Fisheries, NOAA. "Atlantic Wolffish." NOAA"
707:"Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes"
772:. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara
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673:(5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 478–482.
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1242:Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte
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840:(10). California Academy of Sciences.
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796:"Genera in the family Anarhichadidae"
587:"Family-group names of Recent fishes"
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966:Finfish Aquaculture Diversification
896:"UAA Traditions: What's a Seawolf?"
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549:The collegiate sports teams of the
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943:Bulletins of American Paleontology
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218:classifies this family within the
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829:Catherine W. Mecklenburg (2003).
511:and is 240 cm (94 in).
479:but they are all three joined in
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256:name for the Atlantic wolffish (
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323:Atlantic wolffish or sea wolf,
900:University of Alaska Anchorage
806:California Academy of Sciences
551:University of Alaska Anchorage
455:, a moderately elongate body.
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838:Annotated Checklist of Fishes
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68:Scientific classification
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1247:Ray-finned fish families
711:BMC Evolutionary Biology
648:. February 2022 version.
638:; Pauly, Daniel (eds.).
515:Distribution and habitat
503:. The longest published
210:Charles Lucien Bonaparte
186:, is a family of marine
937:Sepkoski, Jack (2002).
640:"Family Anarhichadidae"
509:Anarrhichthys ocellatus
487:made up of superficial
397:Anarrhichthys ocellatus
311:Anarhichas denticulatus
61:Anarhichas denticulatus
1181:Paleobiology Database
949:: 560. Archived from
792:Eschmeyer, William N.
359:Anarhichas orientalis
212:. The 5th edition of
723:2017BMCEE..17..162B
670:Fishes of the World
308:Northern wolffish,
215:Fishes of the World
884:. 2 December 2020.
415:Timeline of genera
341:Spotted wolffish,
268:Genera and species
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1168:Open Tree of Life
978:Taxon identifiers
801:Catalog of Fishes
680:978-1-118-34233-6
553:have adopted the
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1103:iNaturalist
1010:Wikispecies
557:, based on
388:Ayres, 1855
231:Perciformes
1237:Zoarcoidei
1226:Categories
957:2011-05-18
928:5 December
905:2022-01-23
860:"Wolffish"
691:2022-07-24
569:References
497:Anarhichas
489:neuromasts
477:Anarhichas
473:caudal fin
461:dorsal fin
453:Anarhichas
394:Wolf eel,
298:Anarhichas
250:Anarhichas
247:type genus
227:infraorder
223:Zoarcoidei
180:sea wolves
176:wolffishes
135:Zoarcoidei
131:Suborder:
846:1545-150X
536:Fisheries
241:Etymology
207:zoologist
184:wolf eels
164:See text
150:Bonaparte
91:Kingdom:
85:Eukaryota
995:Wikidata
751:28683774
645:FishBase
613:25543675
465:anal fin
331:Linnaeus
258:A. lupus
220:suborder
201:Taxonomy
141:Family:
105:Chordata
101:Phylum:
95:Animalia
81:Domain:
1001:Q604663
866:24 July
811:23 July
776:24 July
742:5501477
719:Bibcode
591:Zootaxa
559:Tlingit
555:Seawolf
527:Biology
507:is for
349:Olafsen
158:Genera
152:, 1832
121:Order:
111:Class:
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1121:114697
1082:1ANRRF
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545:Trivia
404:, 1855
366:, 1814
364:Pallas
351:, 1772
318:, 1845
316:Krøyer
281:Genus
278:Image
174:, the
1204:WoRMS
1116:IRMNG
1108:60633
1043:34200
834:(PDF)
563:Haida
402:Ayres
192:order
1160:8202
1155:NCBI
1129:ITIS
1095:8489
1090:GBIF
1077:EPPO
1069:5379
1038:BOLD
930:2004
868:2022
842:ISSN
813:2022
778:2022
747:PMID
675:ISBN
609:PMID
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561:and
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