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Related FAQs: Blennioids, True/Combtooth Blennies, Algae-eating Blennies, Saber-Tooth Blennies, Tube Blennies/Chaenopsidae,
Wolf Eels, Wolf
Blennies,
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Blennies, Algae Eating Blennies,
Saber-Tooth
Blennies, Labrisomids,
Convict
"Blennies", FW to
Brackish Blennioids, Tube
Blennies/Chaenopsidae,
Family Anarhichadidae:
Wolf fishes, Wolf Blennies
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By Bob Fenner
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Family Anarhichadidae, Wolf fishes, Wolf Blennies;
North Atlantic, North Pacific. Two genera with four species.
These neat, hand-trainable fishes are mainly seen in public
aquaria as they can be enormous (up to 2.5 meters) in size.
Gentle giants that are favorites of Public Aquariums everywhere.
Anarrhichthys ocellatus Ayres 1855, at the Birch
Aquarium, San Diego.
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| Anarichas lupus Linnaeus 1758, Wolf-fish.
Northeastern and Northwestern Atlantic. To 150 cm. Feed on large
crustaceans (lobsters, crabs) and urchins and other echinoderms.
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