Alexander Semenov, Russland
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Linnaeus, 1758
Distribution:
Northeast Atlantic: Spitsbergen southward to White Sea, Scandinavian coasts, North Sea, the British Isles, also Iceland and south-eastern coasts of Greenland. Northwest Atlantic: southern Labrador in Canada and western Greenland to Cape Cod in Massachusetts, USA; rarely to New Jersey, USA.
Elsewhere in the Baltic Sea (east to Rügen and Bornholm Islands), Bay of Biscay and northwestern Mediterranean (Gulf of Genoa).
Biology:
Inhabit rocky bottoms, sometimes over sand or mud, from 1-500 m.
Benthic, feeds on fishes , hard-shelled mollusks, crabs, lobsters, sea urchins and other echinoderms.
Solitary in habit. Marketed fresh and frozen; eaten steamed, fried, broiled, boiled, microwaved and baked.
Synonymised taxa:
Anarhichas lupus marisalbi Barsukov, 1956
Anarhichas strigosus Gmelin, 1789
Anarhichas vomerinus Agassiz, 1867
Anarrhichas vomerinus Agassiz, 1867 (misspelling)
Distribution:
Northeast Atlantic: Spitsbergen southward to White Sea, Scandinavian coasts, North Sea, the British Isles, also Iceland and south-eastern coasts of Greenland. Northwest Atlantic: southern Labrador in Canada and western Greenland to Cape Cod in Massachusetts, USA; rarely to New Jersey, USA.
Elsewhere in the Baltic Sea (east to Rügen and Bornholm Islands), Bay of Biscay and northwestern Mediterranean (Gulf of Genoa).
Biology:
Inhabit rocky bottoms, sometimes over sand or mud, from 1-500 m.
Benthic, feeds on fishes , hard-shelled mollusks, crabs, lobsters, sea urchins and other echinoderms.
Solitary in habit. Marketed fresh and frozen; eaten steamed, fried, broiled, boiled, microwaved and baked.
Synonymised taxa:
Anarhichas lupus marisalbi Barsukov, 1956
Anarhichas strigosus Gmelin, 1789
Anarhichas vomerinus Agassiz, 1867
Anarrhichas vomerinus Agassiz, 1867 (misspelling)
