Overview
Family : Wolffishes ; Inhabits offshore waters in midwater ; adults also near bottom from 60-970 m , mainly 100-900 m. Feeds on sea gooseberries, medusas , small fishes , also echinoderms , crustaceans and mollusks (not so hard-shelled)[1]. Spawns at great depths[2].
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Chinese:
金大狼鳚
Common Names in Danish:
Bl, Blå havkat, Bredpandet havkat
Common Names in English:
Blue sea cat, Jelly-cat, Northern Wobbegong, northern wolffish
Common Names in Faroese:
Bl, Blágóma, Blágómur, Blágumma
Common Names in Finnish:
Sinimerikissa
Common Names in French:
Loup , Loup à tête large, Loup G, Loup gélatineux
Common Names in German:
Blauer Seewolf, Katfisch, Steinbei, Steinbeißer, Wasserkatze
Common Names in Greenlandic:
Najorpaligarsuaq
Common Names in Icelandic:
Bl, Blágóma
Common Names in Inuktitut:
Kêrak, KÍrak, Qêraq, QÍraq
Common Names in Italian:
Bavosa lupa
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
小齒大狼鳚, 小齒狼魚, 小齿大狼鳚, 小齿狼鱼, 少齒大狼鳚, 少齿大狼鳚, 強齒大狼鳚, 强齿大狼鳚, 蓝狼鱼, 藍狼魚, 金大狼鳚
Common Names in Norwegian:
Bl, Blåsteinbit, Flekksteinbit
Common Names in Polish:
Zebacz czarny
Common Names in Portuguese:
Lobo, Peixe-lobo, Peixe-lobo-azul
Common Names in Russian:
вдовица
Common Names in Spanish:
Lobo
Common Names in Swedish:
Bl, Blå havkatt, Blå havskatt
Common Names in Turkish:
Mavi deniz kedisi
Description
Habitat
May be found at depths of 60 to 900 meters.
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -3,476 meters (0 to -11,404 feet).[3]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Class:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
()
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
()
- Order:
Perciformes
()
-
- Suborder:
Zoarcoidei
()
- Family:
Anarhichadidae
()
- Genus:
Anarhichas
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Specific name:
denticulatus
- KrØyer, 1845
- Scientific name: - the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Service
- Specific name:
denticulatus
- KrØyer, 1845
- Genus:
Anarhichas
(
- Family:
Anarhichadidae
(
- Suborder:
Zoarcoidei
(
- Order:
Perciformes
(
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
(
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Osteichthyes
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Anarhichas latifrons Steenstrup & Hallgrimsson • Lycichthys denticulatus (Krøyer • Lycichthys fortidens Gill • Lycichthys parvodens Lühmann • Lycichthys paucidens Gill
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Krøyer In: Naturhist.Tidsskrift,(2)1(6), 1845.
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 07-May-1998
Similar Species
Members of the genus Anarhichas
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. denticulatus (Northern Wobbegong) · A. lepturus (Alaska Wolffish) · A. lupus (Atlantic Tripletail) · A. minor (Spotted Sea Catfish) · A. orientalis (Bering Wolffish)
More Info
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Further Reading
- A checklist of Canadian Atlantic fishes with keys for identification / Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 1965 url p. 15, p. 73, p. 93.
- A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. url p. 43.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 163, p. 164, p. 165, p. 176, p. 197, p. 205, p. 212, p. 281.
- Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 214, p. 548, p. 551, p. 567.
- Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 11.
Notes
Contributors
- Allen, Gerald R. (from FishBase).
- American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- Species At Risk Act Public Registry, Government of Canada
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:
- Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
- GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
- GBIF-Sweden: Fishes of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Atlantic Reference Centre (OBIS Canada)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: DFO Maritimes Research Vessel Trawl Surveys Fish Observations (OBIS Canada)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: ECNASAP - East Coast North America Strategic Assessment (OBIS Canada)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Electronic Atlas of Ichthyoplankton on the Scotian Shelf of North America (OBIS Canada)
- Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
- Senckenberg: Collection Pisces
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 119844
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-29624
- Fishbase Species ID: 3810
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14581696
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 550561
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCSD01010
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 101999
Footnotes
- Barsukov, V.V. (1986). Anarhichadidae. p. 1113-1116. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. volume 3. UNESCO, Paris. [back]
- Ponomarenko, V.P. (1979). An interesting find of the blue wolffish Anarhichas denticulatus. J. Ichthyol. 19(6):151-152. [back]
- Mean = -466.590 meters (-1,530.807 feet), Standard Deviation = 475.740 based on 4,527 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
