mysterious Huge Rare Deep Sea Fish?

[Scott C. France]

My ichthyologist friend (Gorka Sancho) identified it as a wolffish, 
and further investigation on FishBase suggests it may be Anarhichas 
minor, the Spotted wolffish.  FishBase shows a depth range of 25 - 
600 meters (but most common from 100-400 m) and the following 
distribution:  "Spitsbergen southward to Scandinavian coasts (to 
about Bergen, also Iceland and south-eastern coasts of Greenland. 
Western Atlantic: western Greenland and Nova Scotia in Canada to 
Massachusetts in USA and perhaps to New Jersey, USA."

See 
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Anarhichas&speciesname=minor.

Scott France

>Can anyone on the list identify this so-called "deep sea fish"?  I am not
>connected to the auction in any fashion, but interested in merely
>identifying this specimen.
>
>Thank you,
>Loren Coleman
>Portland, Maine
>
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>Title of item: >>>>Huge Rare Deep Sea Fish - Taxidermy <<<<
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3601128207
>
>Item Description:
>Deep sea fish?!

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