FB-3811 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3811 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Perciformes/Zoarcoidei Anarhichadidae Anarhichas Anarhichas minor Olafsen, 1772 Fleckstenbid Flekksteinbit Zebacz pstry Peixe-lobo malhado Peixe-lobo-malhado Morflaidd brith Plettet havkat Tigerplettet havkat Gefleckter Katfisch Gefleckter Seewolf Catfish Spotted sea cat Spotted sea catfish Spotted sea-cat Spotted wolf Spotted wolffish Spotted wolf-fish Liri Kirjomerikissa Meripantteri Blennie-loup tacheté Loup tacheté Hlýri Kaerrak Kêrak Qêraq Bavosa lupa Pyatnistaya zubatka Pyostraya zubatka зубатка пятнистая Fläckig havkatt Fläckig havskatt Зубатка Зубатка плямиста Perro chico Perro pintado Gevlekte zeewolf Pegasti ostrigar Qeeraq milattooq 斑狼鳚 花狼魚 花狼鱼 Anarhicas karrak Bonnaterre, 1788 Anarhichas karrak Bonnaterre, 1788 Anarhichas leopardus Agassiz, 1831 Anarhichas maculatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Anarhichas scansor Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Anarhichas steenstrupii Gill, 1861 Anarrhicas steenstrupii Gill, 1861 Anarrhichas leopardus Agassiz, 1831 Anarrhichas pantherinus Zuiew, 1784 Anarrhichas pantherinvs Zuiew, 1784 Anarrhichas steenstrupii Gill, 1861 1991-05-01 2007-07-06 Breder, C.M. and D.E. 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(www.biosweb.org. updated 13/04/2023). (Ref. 128520) Simian, G., D. Abraham, N. Bailly, P. Béarez, F. Urtizberea, A. Perrot, H. Goraguer, R. Langlois, P. Daszkiewicz, F. Teletchea, S. Tercerie and G. Denys0 Checklist of fishes from the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago. Cybium 46(4):371-384. (Ref. 132183) FB-GeneralDescr-3811 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2007-07-06 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3811 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses Inhabits offshore waters over soft bottoms, often with boulders, from 25-590 m, but most common from 100-400 m (Ref. 4694). Benthic (Ref. 58426). Feeds mainly on echinoderms, but also crustaceans, mollusks, fishes (Ref. 4694) and worms (Ref. 58426). In Barents sea, it reached at least 80 cm, age 9 years. Marketed fresh or as frozen fillets. Leather can be made of the skin (Ref. 35388). 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. (Ref. 4694) FB-DiagnosticDescr-3811 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Arlene G. Sampang-Reyes 2001-01-30 00:00:00 2005-01-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3811 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Coloration greyish brown with many distinct spots on body and dorsal fin (Ref. 35388). Muus, B.J. and J.G. Nielsen 1999 Sea fish. Scandinavian Fishing Year Book, Hedehusene, Denmark. 340 p. (Ref. 35388) FB-Distribution-3811 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-02 00:00:00 2021-05-26 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3811 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats Northwest Atlantic: western Greenland and Nova Scotia in Canada to Massachusetts in USA and perhaps to New Jersey, USA (Ref. 7251). Northeast Atlantic: Spitsbergen southward to Scandinavian coasts (to about Bergen, also Iceland and south-eastern coasts of Greenland. 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. (Ref. 4694) FB-Uses-3811 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2007-07-06 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3811 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat fisheries: minor commercial; gamefish: yes; price category: low; price reliability: reliable: based on ex-vessel price for this species FAO 1994 FAO Yearbook. Fishery statistics: catches and landings. Vol. 74: 1992. FAO Fish. Ser. 43:677 p. (Ref. 8984) International Game Fish Association 1991 World record game fishes. International Game Fish Association, Florida, USA. (Ref. 4699) FB-Migration-3811 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2007-07-06 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3811 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#DiagnosticDescription Oceanodromous. Migrating within oceans typically between spawning and different feeding areas, as tunas do. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km. Riede, K. 2004 Global register of migratory species - from global to regional scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Germany. 329 p. (Ref. 51243) FB-LifeCycle-3811 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2007-07-06 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org//Reproduction/FishReproSummary.php?ID=3811&StockCode=4007 Spawning happens between the months of September and January at 250 m depth. Females lay great egg bunches in nests built on the ground. The size of the eggs increases with the size of the female. Egg size 5-6 mm, larval length at hatching 21-24 mm. Muus, B. and P. Dahlström 1978 Meeresfische der Ostsee, der Nordsee, des Atlantiks. BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, München. 244 p. (Ref. 4645) FB-TrophicStrategy-3811 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1996-11-28 00:00:00 2014-02-05 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public minor http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Inhabits offshore waters over soft bottoms, often with boulders, from 25-590 m, but most common from 100-400 m (Ref. 4694). Benthic (Ref. 58426). Feeds mainly on echinoderms, but also crustaceans, mollusks, fishes (Ref. 4694) and worms (Ref. 58426). In Barents sea, it reached at least 80 cm, age 9 years. Preyed upon by cod, pollock, and Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus). Parasites of the species include 1 myxosporidian, 1 cestode, 7 trematodes, 1 hirudinean, 1 crustacean and 1 protozoan, Trypanosoma murmanensis (Ref. 5951). Sparholt, H. 1990 An estimate of the total biomass of fish in the North Sea. J. Cons. 46:200-210. (Ref. 12224) FB-Size-3811 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2007-07-06 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3811 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses 180 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 7251)); max. published weight: 27.9 kg (Ref. 40637) Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray 1986 A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251) IGFA 2001 Database of IGFA angling records until 2001. IGFA, Fort Lauderdale, USA. (Ref. 40637) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-3811 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2007-07-06 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3811 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats demersal; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); marine; depth range 25 - 600 m (Ref. 35388), usually 100 - 400 m Riede, K. 2004 Global register of migratory species - from global to regional scales. 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