First Record of Juvenile Northern Wolffish Anarhichas denticulatus Krøyer, 1845, on the Continental Slope of Northeast Greenland

O. V. Karamushko^a^, *, I. Birkjedal^b, J. S. Christiansen^c, and A. Lynghammar^c
Translated by I. Yu. Feniova

^aMurmansk Marine Biological Institute, Kola Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Murmansk, Russia

^bUniversity Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

^cDepartment of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Correspondence to: *e-mail: karamushko_o@mmbi.info

Received 24 June, 2016

Abstract—The first record of the juvenile northern wolffish Anarhichas denticulatus was reported 570 km away from the nearest border of the species natural habitat near the island of Jan Mayen, on the continental slope of Northeast Greenland. Also original and published data on the occurrence of juvenile northern wolffish in the European Arctic and North Atlantic are presented.

Keywords: northern wolffish Anarhichas denticulatus, juveniles, Greenland, European Arctic, North Atlantic

DOI: 10.1134/S0032945217040051