Phil Garner, Southern California Marine Life, USA
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Anarrhichthys ocellatus Ayres, 1855
Distribution:
North Pacific: Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan to the Krenitzen Islands, in the Aleutian chain and Imperial Beach, southern California, USA.
Biology:
Adults seek shelter among rocks in subtidal areas and will occupy the same shelter until driven out by larger wolf-eels or a large octopus.
Juveniles are pelagic for up to two years.
Feed on hard-shelled invertebrates and fishes. Both male and female wrap their body around the egg mass to keep the eggs in place and to deter predators.
Large specimens can inflict a painful bite.
Its flesh is tasty.
fishbase: Traumatogenic!
Synonymised taxa:
Anarhichas ocellatus (Ayres, 1855)
Anarhichthys ocellatus Ayres, 1855
Anarrhichas felis Girard, 1858
Distribution:
North Pacific: Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan to the Krenitzen Islands, in the Aleutian chain and Imperial Beach, southern California, USA.
Biology:
Adults seek shelter among rocks in subtidal areas and will occupy the same shelter until driven out by larger wolf-eels or a large octopus.
Juveniles are pelagic for up to two years.
Feed on hard-shelled invertebrates and fishes. Both male and female wrap their body around the egg mass to keep the eggs in place and to deter predators.
Large specimens can inflict a painful bite.
Its flesh is tasty.
fishbase: Traumatogenic!
Synonymised taxa:
Anarhichas ocellatus (Ayres, 1855)
Anarhichthys ocellatus Ayres, 1855
Anarrhichas felis Girard, 1858
