Anarhichadidae
wolffishes
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171335 via WoRMS external link
Anarhichadidae, the wolffishes, sea wolves or wolf eels, is a family of marine ray finned fishes belonging to the order Perciformes. These are predatory, eel shaped fishes which are native to the cold waters of the Arctic, North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1992 and 2013.R
- 2
- observations
- 2
- records
- 1992–2013
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125517")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125517'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 1 taxon
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Zoarcoidei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Nick Jeffery · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Anarhichas denticulatus · source
- Photo · Joachim S. Müller · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Anarhichadidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1346930880
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗