Definition & Meaning | English word WOLFFISH
WOLFFISH
Definitions of WOLFFISH
- Any fish of the family Anarhichadidae.
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using WOLFFISH in a Sentence
- The Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus), also known as the seawolf, Atlantic catfish, ocean catfish, devil fish, wolf eel (the common name for its Pacific relative), woof or sea cat, is a marine fish of the wolffish family Anarhichadidae, native to the North Atlantic Ocean.
- The Sea Pavilion contains information concerning leatherback sea turtles, Atlantic whitefish, northern right whales, sharks, lake whitefish, largemouth bass, brook trout, Atlantic wolffish, and Atlantic pickerel.
- Saltstraumen is popular with anglers, due to its abundance of fish such as saithe, cod, wolffish, rose fish, and halibut.
- Anarhichadidae wolffishes use their large teeth to feed on a diet of shelled invertebrates such as crabs, starfishes and sea urchins, as well as other prey, The peak mating season for wolffish is September to October.
- The wolf eel’s genus name Anarrhichthys combines the wolffish genus Anarhichas, as this taxon has a similar head shape to the wolffishes, and ichthys, which means “fish”.
- This MPA explicitly protects porbeagle sharks, smooth sakes, basking sharks, black dogfishes, northern wolffish, and leatherback sea turtles, along with sea pens and other cold water coral.
- thumb Many Teleosts, for example the Atlantic wolffish, exhibit durophagous behaviour and crush hard prey with their appropriately adapted jaws and teeth.
- Verde, Cinzia; Carratore, Vito; Riccio, Antonio; Tamburrini, Maurizio; Parisi, Elio; di Prisco, Guido (2002) The functionally distinct hemoglobins of the Arctic spotted wolffish Anarhichas minor Journal of Biological Chemistry 277(39):36312-36320.
- The lake's high salinity contributes to the biodiversity of phytoplankton, zooplankton, and fish, and it serves as a nursery site for fish species such as northern wolffish, Sole, Salema porgy, and sand steenbras.
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