wolf fish
Noun 1. large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins (synonym) wolffish, catfish (hypernym) blennioid fish, blennioid (member-holonym) Anarhichas, genus Anarhichas | ||||
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wolf fish
wolf fish
n : large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins [syn: wolffish, catfish]
wolf fish
(zo?l.), any one of several species of large, voracious marine fishes of the genus anarrhichas, especially the common species (a. lupus) of europe and north america. these fishes have large teeth and powerful jaws. called also catfish, sea cat, sea wolf, stone biter , and swinefish...
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wolf fish
n : large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins [syn: wolffish, catfish]
wolf fish
(zo?l.), any one of several species of large, voracious marine fishes of the genus anarrhichas, especially the common species (a. lupus) of europe and north america. these fishes have large teeth and powerful jaws. called also catfish, sea cat, sea wolf, stone biter , and swinefish...
see wolf
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Anarhichadidae
The wolffishes are a family, Anarhichadidae, of perciform fishes. They are native to cold waters of the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, where they live on the continental shelf and slope, to depths of about 600 m. They are bottom-feeders, eating hard-shelled invertebrates such as clams, echinoderms and crustaceans, which they crush with strong canine and molar teeth. The longest species, Anarrhichthys ocellatus, grows to 240 cm in length.
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Seawolf (fish)
The Seawolf (Anarhichas lupus), also known as the Atlantic wolffish, Atlantic catfish, wolf eel, or sea cat, is a marine fish, the largest of the family Anarhichadidae. In spite of its large size (the largest specimen caught being 150 cm long and weighing almost 24 kg), it has retained the bodily form and general external characteristics of the small blennies. Its body is long, subcylindrical in front, compressed in the caudal portion, smooth and slippery, the rudimentary scales being embedded and almost hidden in the skin. An even dorsal fin extends the whole length of the back, and a similar fin from the vent to the caudal fin, as in blennies. The pectorals are large and rounded, the pelvic fins entirely absent.
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