The Northern wolffish was first formally described in 1845 by the Danish zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer with the … Meer weergeven

The northern wolffish is a robust, elongate fish with a large head, sharp snout and small eyes. The teeth are distinctive and prominent with large canine-like teeth to the front of the jaws and molar-like teeth at the bac… Meer weergeven

The Northern wolffish is found in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans where it is distributed in the Barents and Norwegian seas to Spitsbergen, Iceland, Faroe Islands, southern Greenland and south along east coa… Meer weergeven

Northern wolffish use large rocks for shelter and nest building. Late in the year, females lay about 46,500 large eggs (up to 8 mm or 5⁄16 inch in diameter) which sink to the sea floor, where they are guarded in nests by the … Meer weergeven

The northern wolffish is protected under the Canadian federal Species at Risk Act (SARA), where it is classified as a Threatened species. A recovery team for the northern and spotted wolffish has almo… Meer weergeven

The Northern wolfish overlaps in range with the Bering wolffish (A. orientalis) in the Bathurst Inlet where the local Inuit do not distinguish between the species, calling both by the name akoak or akoaksaluk ("old wo… Meer weergeven