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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Anarhichadidae

wolffishes

WoRMS 125517ITIS 171335key worms:125517
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171335 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nick Jeffery · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Anarhichas denticulatus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Anarhichadidae
Photo · Joachim S. Müller · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

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 is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125517")