Arctic alligatorfish

Aspidophoroides olrikii

Agonid Fish in Northeast Pacific

Polar
Circumpolar Arctic
Northern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
North America
Polar regions
Elongated
Small
Cold-water fish

The Arctic alligatorfish (Aspidophoroides olrikii) is a fish in the family Agonidae. It was described by C.F. Lütken in 1877. It is a marine and brackish-water dwelling fish which is known from the Arctic, the northwestern Atlantic and northwestern and northeastern Pacific Ocean, including Canada, Greenland, Siberia, the Barents Sea, the White Sea, the Kara Sea, the Chukchi Sea, the Bering Sea, the Bering Strait, and the Anadyr Gulf.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Perches and Allies
Family: Agonidae
Genus: Aspidophoroides
Maximum length: 8.6 cm
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Arctic to Northwest Atlantic and Northwest to Northeast Pacific: Hudson Bay and Labrador in Canada and Greenland. Also in the Barents Sea, Kara Sea, White Sea and Siberia (Ref. 4700 ); Chukchi Sea, Bering Strait, Bering Sea and Anadyr Gulf (Ref. 6876 ).

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