Bering wolffish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Bering wolffish guard a mass of eggs by curling their bodies around it.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Bering wolffish
- Scientific name
- Anarhichas orientalis
- Japanese name
- オオカミウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Anarhichadidae
- Genus
- Anarhichas
It has a fierce-looking face but is actually a timid fish. Sometimes just its face can be seen peeking out from behind a rock.
How the Bering wolffish lives
Their long, narrow bodies let them slip into tight gaps in rocks. They use sharp teeth and strong jaws to crush shellfish and sea urchins, shells and all. The eggs they lay form a round mass.
海遊館海遊館新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Diet
- Bottom-dwelling organisms and hard-shelled invertebrates
- Range
- North of Niigata and Ibaraki, Peter the Great Bay, Strait of Tartary, Sea of Okhotsk coast, and elsewhere
Where the Bering wolffish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- オオカミウオ
- 简体中文
- 白令狼鱼
- 繁體中文
- 白令狼魚
- Español
- Pez lobo de Bering
- Français
- Loup de Béring
- Deutsch
- Bering-Seewolf
- Português (Brasil)
- Enguia-lobo-do-Pacífico
- العربية
- عريك بيرنغ
- Русский
- Дальневосточная зубатка
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — オオカミウオChecked: 2026-11-03
- アクアマリンふくしま — オオカミウオChecked: 2026-11-03
- 海遊館 — オオカミウオChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — オオカミウオChecked: 2026-11-07
- 海遊館 — オオカミウオに突撃！インタビューChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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