The body – The Wolf Eel has a long, slender body.The back rows of teeth comprise of strong molars for pulverizing the prey. It has a row of 4 to 6 conical fang like teeth meant for biting. It is one of the strongest mouths created by nature to crush hard shelled creatures. The jaw of a wolf – one of the most remarkable features of the anatomy of the Wolf Eel is its mouth.They have huge, soft lips surrounding the mouth. The head is a large square structure with a bump on the top. The head - Scott Reid says, “ They have got faces, which only a mother could love”. Not just color, the Wolf Eel also shows a gender specific spot pattern on its body. The females are brown in color and the males are grey in color. The special characteristic of the Wolf Eel is its gender specific coloring. The young ones of a burnt orange hue and the adults are brown or green or grey. A Wolf Eel can grow up to 8 feet in length and weighs up to 88 pounds. Someone rightly said that the Wolf Eel has the appearance of a fish, eyes of a snake, jaws of a wolf and the grace of a gold fish. They are bred near shore reefs of Oregon where they are bred in captivity. They are also found in Russia, Aleutian Islands of Japan, Islands of Racerocks (near the Rosedale Reef), and Imperial Beach of Southern California. They are found in the Pacific coast from North Baja of California to Kodiak Island in Alaska. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE WOLF EEL It is the Pacific relative of the popular Atlantic Wolf Fish. Wolf Eel is one of the five species of the endangered Wolf Fish family. Anarrhichthys in Greek means ‘a fish’ and ocellatus stands for ‘eye like spots’. It is in fact, a fish with the face of a wolf and the body of an Eel. Wolf Eel or Anarrhichthys Ocellatus, is neither a wolf nor an eel. Check out our Astoria Fishing Charters and Washington Halibut Charters
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