Belgian Register of Marine Species - Anarhichas lupus Linnaeus, 1758

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Anarhichas lupus Linnaeus, 1758

To FishBase images (<i>Anarhichas lupus</i>, Norway, by Salesjö, A.)

To FishBase images (Anarhichas lupus, Norway, by Salesjö, A.)

AphiaID

126758 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126758)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Typetaxon of

Anarhichas Linnaeus, 1758

Parent

Anarhichas Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Anarhichas lupus Linnaeus, 1758

Synonymised names

Anarhichas lupus lupus Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted (senior synonym)

Anarhichas lupus marisalbi Barsukov, 1956 · unaccepted

Anarhichas strigosus Gmelin, 1789 · unaccepted

Anarhichas vomerinus Agassiz, 1867 · unaccepted

Anarrhicas vomerinus Agassiz, 1867 · unaccepted (misspelling)

Anarrhichas vomerinus Agassiz, 1867 · unaccepted (misspelling)

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Subspecies Anarhichas lupus lupus Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Anarhichas lupus Linnaeus, 1758 (senior synonym)
Subspecies Anarhichas lupus marisalbi Barsukov, 1956 accepted as Anarhichas lupus Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
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Descriptive notes

Distribution Southern Labrador to Cape Cod, rarely to New Jersey

Distribution Southern Labrador to Cape Cod, rarely to New Jersey [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Anarhichas lupus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126758 on 2025-04-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 247 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Anarhichas strigosus Gmelin, 1789) Gmelin, J. F. (1789). Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decimo tertia, aucta, reformata. 3 vols. in 9 parts. Lipsiae,. 1788-93. v. 1 (pt 3): 1033-1516 [Fishes on pp. 1126-1516].
page(s): 1144 [details]

original description (of Anarhichas vomerinus Agassiz, 1867) Storer, D. H. (1855). A history of the fishes of Massachusetts. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (new series). v. 5 (pt 2, art. 12): 257-296, Pls. 17-23. [Continued in 1858, 1863, 1867; reprinted in book form, with a supplement, in 1867.]. [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. No. 219. 731 pp. [details]

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]

additional source Zenetos, A., M.E. Cinar, M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou, J.G. Harmelin, G. Furnari, F. Andaloro, N. Bellou, N. Streftaris & H. Zibrowius. (2005). Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species. Mediterranean Marine Science. 6 (2): 63-118., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273213810_Annotated_list_of_marine_alien_species_in_the_Mediterranean_with_records_of_the_worst_invasive_species [details] Available for editors

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additional source Zenetos, A., S. Gofas, M. Verlaque, M. Cinar, J. Garcia Raso, C. Bianchi, C. Morri, E. Azzurro, M. Bilecenoglu, C. Froglia, I. Siokou, D. Violanti, A. Sfriso, G. San Martin, A. Giangrande, T. Katagan, E. Ballesteros, A. Ramos-Espla, F. Mastrototaro, O. Ocana, A. Zingone, M,. Gambi & N. Streftaris. (2010). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010. A contribution to the application of European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part I. Spatial distribution. Mediterranean Marine Science. 11(2): 381-493., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.87 [details]

additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Diet Feeds on echinoderms, molluscs, crustaceans and fish, especially redfish [details]

Distribution Southern Labrador to Cape Cod, rarely to New Jersey [details]

Habitat benthic [details]

Habitat Found to depths of 500 m over hard clay bottoms. [details]

Importance Social- Highly commercial, experimental aquaculture, gamefish [details]

Predators Cod [details]

Reproduction Spawns in August [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Danish	Stribet havkathavkat	[details]
Dutch	zeewolfAtlantische zeewolf	[details]
English	wolf-fishwolf fishstriped wolffishcatfishAtlantic wolffish	[details]
Finnish	merikissa	[details]
French	loup marinloup de l'Atlantiqueloup atlantiqueloupblennie-loup	[details]
German	SeewolfKatfischgestreifter Seewolf	[details]
Icelandic	steinbítur	[details]
Norwegian	gråsteinbit	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	gråsteinbit	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	gråsteinbit	[details]
Polish	zebacz smugowy	[details]
Russian	zubatka	[details]
Swedish	havskatt	[details]
Welsh	morflaidd	[details]