Recently caught individual from Upernavik Kujalleq, Greenland
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1] (Europe)
Unranked (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Scorpaeniformes
Family:
Anarhichadidae
Genus:
Anarhichas
Species:
A. minor
Binomial name
Anarhichas minor
(Ólafsson, 1772)
Synonyms[3]
Anarhichas karrak (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Anarhichas maculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Anarhichas scansor (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Anarhichas leopardus (Agassiz, 1831)
Anarhichas minor, the spotted wolffish, spotted sea cat or leopardfish, is a large marine fish of the family Anarhichadidae. This bottom-dwelling species is found across the North Atlantic and adjacent parts of the Arctic Ocean from north of Russia and the Scandinavian Peninsula to the Scotian Shelf, off Nova Scotia, Canada. In Canada the population declined by about 90% from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, particularly in the northern part of its range. In Canada it is classified as a threatened species.[4]
^Collette, B.; Fernandes, P. & Heessen, H. (2015). "Anarhichas minor (Europe assessment)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T18263655A44739959. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
^"Anarhichas minor". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
^Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Anarhichas minor" in FishBase. February 2022 version.
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left the water and climbed up on the rocks. Anarhichas has four species classified within it: Anarhichas wolfishes have a largely compressed and moderately...
monophyletic. Anarhichadidae is derived from the name of its type genus Anarhichas which is an Ancient Greek name for the Atlantic wolffish (A. lupus) and...
Rasmussen E, Mennen S (May 2004). "Susceptibility of spotted wolffish Anarhichasminor to experimental infection with nodavirus and infectious pancreatic...
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