catfish

Anarhichas lupus

Gray bars frame a mouth built to crush shells

catfish is known around Northeast Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 150 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Perches and Allies
Family: Anarhichadidae
Genus: Anarhichas
Maximum length: 150 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Northeast Atlantic: Spitsbergen southward to White Sea, Scandinavian coasts, North Sea, the British Isles, to the Northen part of Bay of Biscaye, also Iceland and south-eastern coasts of Greenland (Ref.. 57932 ). Northwest Atlantic: southern Labrador in Canada and western Greenland to Cape Cod in Massachusetts, USA; rarely to New Jersey, USA (Ref. 7251 ). Elsewhere in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean from Ref. 57932 should be regarded as questionable, as stray at most, until original reports are cheked (see Ref. 119696 ).

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