Anarrhichthys ocellatus Ayres 1855
Description
Anarrhichthys ocellatus Ayres, 1855.
Wolf-eel. To no more than 203 cm (6.7 ft) (Pietsch and Orr 2019) or perhaps to 240 cm (nearly 8 ft) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). South-eastern Bering Sea east to Cape Menshikof, west along Aleutian Islands to Krenitzin Islands, and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to northern Baja California (31°41’N, 116°42’W) (Feeney et al. 2007). This species has also been reported to live around Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (del Prado and Peters 2005), but without documentation. A Wolf-eel found on the northeastern Bering Sea coast at Nome after a major storm (Love et al. 2005) may have drifted there from farther south in the Bering Sea. Depth: intertidal to 417 m (1,368 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: NWFSC-FRAM).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Anarhichadidae
- Genus
- Anarrhichthys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ayres
- Species
- ocellatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Anarrhichthys ocellatus Ayres, 1855 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Pietsch, T. W. & Orr, J. W. (2019) Fishes of the Salish Sea. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
- Feeney, R. F., Lea, R. N., Dyer, S. & Gietler, S. (2007) First record of the wolf-eel, Anarrhichthys ocellatus (Pisces: Anarhichadidae), from Baja California. California Fish and Game, 93, 52 - 55.
- Del Prado, K. S. & Peters, E. (2005) Isla Guadalupe Restauracion y Conservacion. Instituto Nacional de Ecologia, Mexico.
- Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.