Although the bulk of its area is covered by

ice cap In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than are termed ice sheets. Description Ice caps are not constrained by topographical features ...

s inhospitable to most forms of life,

Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...

's terrain and waters support a wide variety of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

and

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species. The northeastern part of the island is the world's largest

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. The flora and fauna of Greenland are strongly susceptible to changes associated with

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and

fauna Fauna is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is ''flora'', and for fungi, it is '' funga''. Flora, fauna, funga and other forms of life are collectively referred to as '' biota''. Zoo ...

, including

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translations, and links to articles in the

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, which can be helpful when searching for more information.

Flora

310 species of

vascular plant Vascular plants (), also called tracheophytes () or collectively Tracheophyta (), form a large group of land plants ( accepted known species) that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant. They al ...

s were said to be found in Greenland in 2019, including 15

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

species. Although individual plants can be profuse in favourable situations, relatively few plant species tend to be represented in a given place. In northern Greenland, the ground is covered with a carpet of mosses and low-lying shrubs such as dwarf willows and crowberries. Flowering plants in the north include yellow poppy, '' Pedicularis'', and ''

Pyrola ''Pyrola'' is a genus of evergreen herbaceous plants in the family Ericaceae. Under the old Cronquist system it was placed in its own family Pyrolaceae, but genetic research showed it belonged in the family Ericaceae. The species are commonly ...

''. Plant life in southern Greenland is more abundant, and certain plants, such as the

dwarf birch ''Betula nana'', the dwarf birch, is a species of birch in the family Betulaceae, found mainly in the tundra of the Arctic region. Description It is a monoecious, deciduous shrub growing up to high. The bark is non-peeling and shiny red-copper ...

and willow, may grow several feet high. The only natural forest in Greenland is found in the

Qinngua Valley Qinngua Valley, also called Qinnquadalen, Kanginsap Qinngua and Paradisdalen, is a valley in Greenland, about from the nearest settlement of Tasiusaq, Kujalleq. The valley has the only natural forest in Greenland and is about long, running roug ...

. The forest consists of mainly of downy birch (''

Betula pubescens ''Betula pubescens'' (syn. ''Betula alba''), commonly known as downy birch and also as moor birch, white birch, European white birch or hairy birch, is a species of deciduous tree, native and abundant throughout northern Europe and northern Asia ...

'') and grey-leaf willow ('' Salix glauca''), growing up to tall. although 9 stands of conifers had been cultivated elsewhere by 2007. Horticulture shows a certain degree of success. Plants such as broccoli, radishes,

spinach Spinach (''Spinacia oleracea'') is a leafy green flowering plant native to central and western Asia. It is of the order Caryophyllales, family Amaranthaceae, subfamily Chenopodioideae. Its leaves are a common edible vegetable consumed either f ...

leek The leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of ''Allium ampeloprasum'', the broadleaf wild leek ( syn. ''Allium porrum''). The edible part of the plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a stem or stalk. The genus ''Alli ...

s, lettuce, turnips, chervil,

potato The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...

es and

parsley Parsley, or garden parsley (''Petroselinum crispum'') is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae that is native to the central and eastern Mediterranean region (Sardinia, Lebanon, Israel, Cyprus, Turkey, southern Italy, Greece, Por ...

are grown up to considerable latitudes, while the very south of the country also rears

asters ''Aster'' is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Its circumscription has been narrowed, and it now encompasses around 170 species, all but one of which are restricted to Eurasia; many species formerly in ''Aster'' are ...

, '' Nemophila'', mignonette,

rhubarb Rhubarb is the fleshy, edible stalks ( petioles) of species and hybrids (culinary rhubarb) of ''Rheum'' in the family Polygonaceae, which are cooked and used for food. The whole plant – a herbaceous perennial growing from short, thick rhizo ...

sorrel Sorrel (''Rumex acetosa''), also called common sorrel or garden sorrel, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Polygonaceae. Other names for sorrel include spinach dock and narrow-leaved dock ('dock' being a common name for the genus '' ...

and

carrot The carrot ('' Daucus carota'' subsp. ''sativus'') is a root vegetable, typically orange in color, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist, all of which are domesticated forms of the wild carrot, ''Daucus carota'', nat ...

s. Over the decade to 2007, the growing season lengthened by as much as three weeks. In the 13th-century ''

Konungs skuggsjá ''Konungs skuggsjá'' (Old Norse for "King's mirror"; Latin: ''Speculum regale'', modern Norwegian: ''Kongsspegelen'' (Nynorsk) or ''Kongespeilet'' (Bokmål)) is a Norwegian didactic text in Old Norse from around 1250, an example of speculum lite ...

(King's mirror)'', it is stated that the old Norsemen tried in vain to raise barley. Recent research from archaeological digs on Greenland by the National Museum in Copenhagen discovered barley grains and concluded that the Vikings were able to grow barley.
Image:Vaccinium uliginosum fruit.jpg,

Bog Bilberry ''Vaccinium uliginosum'' (bog bilberry, bog blueberry, northern bilberry or western blueberry) is a Eurasian and North American flowering plant in the genus ''Vaccinium'' within the heath family. Distribution ''Vaccinium uliginosum'' is native ...

(Arctic Blueberry)
''Vaccinium uliginosum''
Kigutaarnat nagguii / mosebølle / blåbær
Kigutaarnat, Blåbær Image:Vaccinium vitis-idaea 20060824 003.jpg, Cowberry
''Vaccinium vitis-idaea''
kimmernat / tyttebær
Kimmernat, Tyttebær Image:Alpine bearberry in Varrio Nature Reserve, Finland.jpg,

Alpine bearberry ''Arctous alpina'' (syn. ''Arctostaphylos alpina''), the alpine bearberry, mountain bearberry or black bearberry, is a dwarf shrub in the heather family Ericaceae. The basionym of this species is ''Arbutus alpina'' . Description ''Arctous alpin ...

''Arctostaphylos alpina''
bjerg melbærris
Melbærris Image:Juniperus communis cones.jpg, Juniper berry
''Alpine Juniper''
enebær
Kakillarnaq; Paarnaqulluk, Enebær Image:Black crowberry.jpg,

Crowberry ''Empetrum nigrum'', crowberry, black crowberry, or, in western Alaska, blackberry, is a flowering plant species in the heather family Ericaceae with a near circumboreal distribution in the Northern Hemisphere. It is usually dioecious, but there ...

''Empetrum hermaphroditum''
paarnat / sortebær / revling
Paarnat, Almindelig Revling Image:Arctic cottongrass, Inuvik, NT.jpg, Arctic Cottongrass
''Eriophorum scheuchzeri''
ukaliusaq / polar kæruld
Ukaliusaq, Kæruld Image:Gewöhnlicher Löwenzahn Taraxacum officinale agg. Wiese.jpg, Dandelion
''Taraxacum lacerum''
inneruulaq / asorut / seqiniusaq / mælkebøtte
Inneruulaq; Asorut; Seqiniusaq, Mælkebøtte Image:Koehler1887-GardenAngelica.jpg, Garden angelica
''Angelica archangelica''
kuanneq / kvan
Kuanneq, Kvan Image:Cladonia rangiferina.jpg,

Cup Lichen A cup is an open-top used to hold hot or cold liquids for pouring or drinking; while mainly used for drinking, it also can be used to store solids for pouring (e.g., sugar, flour, grains, salt). Cups may be made of glass, metal, china, clay, ...

Cladonia borealis ''Cladonia borealis'', commonly known as the boreal cup lichen, is a species of lichen in the genus ''Cladonia''. ---- Description Cladonia borealis is yellowish green to brown in color. It occurs in North and South America, Antarctica, Eurasi ...

'' Stenroos
orsuaasat ermusingasut /rensdyrlav
Orsuaasat ermusingasut, Bægerlav-familien

Fauna

Land mammals

Among the large land mammals are the musk ox, the

caribou Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subspe ...

, the

polar bear The polar bear (''Ursus maritimus'') is a hypercarnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the largest extant bear specie ...

and the white Arctic wolf. Other familiar mammals in Greenland include the Arctic hare, collared lemming, Beringian ermine and Arctic fox. Caribou hunting is of considerable cultural importance to the people of Greenland. Domesticated land mammals include

dog The dog (''Canis familiaris'' or ''Canis lupus familiaris'') is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it is derived from the extinct Pleistocene wolf, and the modern wolf is the dog's nearest living relative. Do ...

s, which were introduced by the

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...

, as well as such European-introduced species as

goat The goat or domestic goat (''Capra hircus'') is a domesticated species of goat-antelope typically kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (''C. aegagrus'') of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the a ...

Greenlandic sheep The Greenlandic sheep ( kl, kalaallit savaataat or ''sava'', da, grønlandsk får) is a breed of domestic sheep. The Greenlandic breed is one of the Northern European short-tailed sheep, which exhibit a fluke-shaped, naturally short tail. The Gr ...

, oxen and

pig The pig (''Sus domesticus''), often called swine, hog, or domestic pig when distinguishing from other members of the genus '' Sus'', is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is variously considered a subspecies of ''Sus s ...

s, which are raised in modest numbers in the south. File:Caribou.jpg, Barren-ground caribou
''Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus''
rensdyr / ren File:Muskus.jpg, Muskox
''Ovibos moschatus''
moskusokse File:Polar bear Olsen, Dave.jpg,

Polar bear The polar bear (''Ursus maritimus'') is a hypercarnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the largest extant bear specie ...

''Ursus maritimus''
isbjørn File:Polarwolf004.jpg, Greenland wolf
''Canis lupus orion''
grønland ulv File:Eisfuchscele4.jpg, Greenland Arctic fox
''Vulpes lagopus foragorapusis''
polarræv File:Polarhase 2 1997-08-04.jpg, Greenland Arctic hare
''Lepus arcticus groenlandicus''
snehare File:Lemming (1).jpg,

Northern collared lemming The northern collared lemming or Nearctic collared lemming (''Dicrostonyx groenlandicus''), sometimes called the Peary Land collared lemming in Canada, is a small lemming found in Arctic North America and Wrangel Island. At one time, it was consi ...

''Dicrostonyx groenlandicus''
lemming

Marine mammals

As many as two million seals are estimated to inhabit Greenland's coasts; species include the hooded seal (''Cystophora cristata'') as well as the

grey seal The grey seal (''Halichoerus grypus'') is found on both shores of the North Atlantic Ocean. In Latin Halichoerus grypus means "hook-nosed sea pig". It is a large seal of the family Phocidae, which are commonly referred to as "true seals" or " ...

(''Halichoerus grypus'').

Whale Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and ...

s frequently pass very close to Greenlandic shores in the late summer and early autumn. Species represented include the

beluga whale The beluga whale () (''Delphinapterus leucas'') is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean. It is one of two members of the family Monodontidae, along with the narwhal, and the only member of the genus ''Delphinapterus''. It is also known as the whi ...

blue whale The blue whale (''Balaenoptera musculus'') is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of and weighing up to , it is the largest animal known to have ever existed. The blue whale's long and slender body can ...

Greenland whale The bowhead whale (''Balaena mysticetus'') is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and the only living representative of the genus ''Balaena''. They are the only baleen whale endemic to the Arctic and subarctic waters, ...

fin whale The fin whale (''Balaenoptera physalus''), also known as finback whale or common rorqual and formerly known as herring whale or razorback whale, is a cetacean belonging to the parvorder of baleen whales. It is the second-longest species of cet ...

humpback whale The humpback whale (''Megaptera novaeangliae'') is a species of baleen whale. It is a rorqual (a member of the family Balaenopteridae) and is the only species in the genus ''Megaptera''. Adults range in length from and weigh up to . The hump ...

, minke whale,

narwhal The narwhal, also known as a narwhale (''Monodon monoceros''), is a medium-sized toothed whale that possesses a large "tusk" from a protruding canine tooth. It lives year-round in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada and Russia. It is o ...

pilot whale Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus ''Globicephala''. The two extant species are the long-finned pilot whale (''G. melas'') and the short-finned pilot whale (''G. macrorhynchus''). The two are not readily distinguishable at sea, a ...

sperm whale The sperm whale or cachalot (''Physeter macrocephalus'') is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. It is the only living member of the genus ''Physeter'' and one of three extant species in the sperm whale famil ...

Whaling Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industry ...

was formerly a major industry in Greenland; by the turn of the 20th century, however, the

right whale Right whales are three species of large baleen whales of the genus ''Eubalaena'': the North Atlantic right whale (''E. glacialis''), the North Pacific right whale (''E. japonica'') and the Southern right whale (''E. australis''). They are clas ...

population was so depleted that the industry was in deep decline. Walruses are to be found primarily in the north and east of the country; like narwhal, they have at times suffered from overhunting for their tusks. Image:Narwal.jpg,

Narwhal The narwhal, also known as a narwhale (''Monodon monoceros''), is a medium-sized toothed whale that possesses a large "tusk" from a protruding canine tooth. It lives year-round in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada and Russia. It is o ...

''Monodon monoceros''
narhval Image:Humpback_Whale_underwater_shot.jpg,

Humpback whale The humpback whale (''Megaptera novaeangliae'') is a species of baleen whale. It is a rorqual (a member of the family Balaenopteridae) and is the only species in the genus ''Megaptera''. Adults range in length from and weigh up to . The hump ...

''Megaptera novaeangliae''
pukkelhval Image:Killerwhales_jumping.jpg,

Orca The orca or killer whale (''Orcinus orca'') is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of which it is the largest member. It is the only Extant taxon, extant species in the genus ''Orcinus'' and is recognizable by its black ...

''Orcinus orca''
spækhugger Image:Phoca hispida.jpg, Ringed seal
''Phoca hispida''
ringsæl Image:Phoca groenlandica.jpg, Harp seal
''Phoca groenlandica''
grønlandssæl Image:Seehund2cele4.jpg, Common seal
''Phoca vitulina''
spættet sæl

Birds

As of 1911, 61 species of birds were known to breed in Greenland."Greenland". ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', Eleventh Edition. Certain birds such as the eider duck,

guillemot Guillemot is the common name for several species of seabird in the Alcidae or auk family (part of the order Charadriiformes). In British use, the term comprises two genera: ''Uria'' and ''Cepphus''. In North America the ''Uria'' species are c ...

and ptarmigan are often hunted for food in the winter. Image:Raichou 01.JPG,

Rock ptarmigan The rock ptarmigan (''Lagopus muta'') is a medium-sized game bird in the grouse family. It is known simply as the ptarmigan in the UK. It is the official bird for the Canadian territory of Nunavut, where it is known as the ''aqiggiq'' (ᐊᕿ� ...

''Lagopus muta''
rype
Skovhøns Image:Raven croak.jpg,

Raven A raven is any of several larger-bodied bird species of the genus ''Corvus''. These species do not form a single taxonomic group within the genus. There is no consistent distinction between "crows" and "ravens", common names which are assigned t ...

''Corvus corax''
ravn Image:Eagle_In_Flight_2004-09-01.jpeg,

White-tailed sea eagle The white-tailed eagle (''Haliaeetus albicilla'') is a very large species of sea eagle widely distributed across temperate Eurasia. Like all eagles, it is a member of the family Accipitridae (or accipitrids) which includes other diurnal raptors ...

''Haliaeetus albicilla''
havørn Image:Falco peregrinus - 01.jpg,

Peregrine falcon The peregrine falcon (''Falco peregrinus''), also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan bird of prey (Bird of prey, raptor) in the family (biology), family Falco ...

''Falco peregrinus''
vandrefalk Image:Falco-rusticolus.jpg, Gyrfalcon
''Falco rusticolus''
jagtfalk Image:Harfang en vol 2.jpg, Snowy owl
''Bubo scandiacus''
sneugle Image:Oenanthe oenanthe 01 II.jpg, Northern wheatear
''Oenanthe oenanthe''
stenpikker Image:Somateria mollissima male female.jpg, Common eider
''Somateria mollissima''
ederfugl Image:AlleAlle_2.jpg,

Little auk The little auk or dovekie (''Alle alle'') is a small auk, the only member of the genus ''Alle''. ''Alle'' is the Sami name of the long-tailed duck; it is onomatopoeic and imitates the call of the drake duck. Linnaeus was not particularly famil ...

''Alle alle''
søkonge Image:Plectrophenax_nivalis1.jpg, Snow bunting
''Plectrophenax nivalis''
snespurv Image:Phalacrocorax_carbo02.jpg,

Great cormorant The great cormorant (''Phalacrocorax carbo''), known as the black shag in New Zealand and formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, and the large cormorant in India, is a w ...

''Phalacrocorax carbo''
skarv Image:Larus hyperboreus1.jpg,

Glaucous gull The glaucous gull (''Larus hyperboreus'') is a large gull, the second-largest gull in the world. It breeds in Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and winters south to shores of the Holarctic. The genus name is from Latin ''larus'', which a ...

''Larus hyperboreus''
gråmåge Image:Larus-glaucoides-002.jpg,

Iceland gull The Iceland gull (''Larus glaucoides'') is a medium-sized gull that breeds in the Arctic regions of Canada and Greenland, but not in Iceland (as its name suggests), where it is only seen during winter. The genus name is from Latin ''larus'', whic ...

''Larus glaucoides''
hvidvinget måge Image:Fulmarus_glacialis_on_cliff.jpg,

Northern fulmar The northern fulmar (''Fulmarus glacialis''), fulmar, or Arctic fulmar is a highly abundant seabird found primarily in subarctic regions of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. There has been one confirmed sighting in the Southern Hemis ...

''Fulmarus glacialis''
mallemuk Image:RedNeckedPhalaropeIceland2006.jpg, Red-necked phalarope
''Phalaropus lobatus''
odinshane Image:Mergus_serrator.jpg, Red-breasted merganser
''Mergus serrator''
toppet skallesluger Image:RedthroatedLoon23.jpg, Red-throated diver
''Gavia stellata''
rødstrubet lom Image:Common Loon.jpg, Great northern diver
''Gavia immer''
islom Image:Long-tailed-duck.jpg, Long-tailed duck (male)
''Clangula hyemalis''
havlit Image:Puffin2.jpg,

Atlantic puffin The Atlantic puffin ('), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family. It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species, the tufted puffin and the horned puffin is found in the northeastern ...

''Fratercula arctica''

lunde Lunde may refer to: People Politics * Gulbrand Lunde (1901–1942), Norwegian councillor of state in the Nasjonal Samling government * Heidi Nordby Lunde (born 1973), Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party * Jens Lunde (1884–1974), Nor ...

Fish

Of the many species of fish inhabiting Greenland's waters, several have been of economic importance, including

cod Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus '' Gadus'', belonging to the family Gadidae. Cod is also used as part of the common name for a number of other fish species, and one species that belongs to genus ''Gadus'' is commonly not call ...

, caplin,

halibut Halibut is the common name for three flatfish in the genera '' Hippoglossus'' and ''Reinhardtius'' from the family of right-eye flounders and, in some regions, and less commonly, other species of large flatfish. The word is derived from ''h ...

, rockfish, ''nipisak'' (''Cycloperteus lumpus'') and

sea trout Sea trout is the common name usually applied to anadromous (sea-run) forms of brown trout (''Salmo trutta''), and is often referred to as ''Salmo trutta'' morpha ''trutta''. Other names for anadromous brown trout are sewin (Wales), peel or peal ...

. The

Greenland shark The Greenland shark (''Somniosus microcephalus''), also known as the gurry shark, grey shark, or by the Kalaallisut name ''eqalussuaq'', is a large shark of the family Somniosidae ("sleeper sharks"), closely related to the Pacific and southern s ...

is used for the oil in its liver, as well as fermented and eaten as

hákarl is, Hákarl, label=none (an abbreviation of is, kæstur hákarl, label=none , referred to as fermented shark in English) is a national dish of Iceland consisting of a Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with a particular ...

, a local delicacy. Image:Atlantic_cod.jpg, Atlantic cod
''Gadus ogac''
torsk Image:Salmo trutta Trout Aquarium Atlanterhavsparken Norway.jpg,

Atlantic salmon The Atlantic salmon (''Salmo salar'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the third largest of the Salmonidae, behind Siberian taimen and Pacific Chinook salmon, growing up to a meter in length. Atlantic salmon are ...

''Salmo salar''
laks Image:Salvelinusalpinus.jpg,

Arctic char The Arctic char or Arctic charr (''Salvelinus alpinus'') is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to alpine lakes and arctic and subarctic coastal waters. Its distribution is Circumpolar North. It spawns in freshwater and populatio ...

''Salvelinus alpinus''
fjeldørred Image:Fiorello_LaGuardia_with_halibut.jpg,

Halibut Halibut is the common name for three flatfish in the genera '' Hippoglossus'' and ''Reinhardtius'' from the family of right-eye flounders and, in some regions, and less commonly, other species of large flatfish. The word is derived from ''h ...

''Hippoglossus hippoglossus''
helleflynder Image:Reinhardtius_hippoglossoides.jpg,

Greenland halibut The Greenland halibut or Greenland turbot (''Reinhardtius hippoglossoides'') belongs to the family Pleuronectidae (the right-eye flounders), and is the only species of the genus ''Reinhardtius''. It is a predatory fish that mostly ranges at dept ...

''Reinhardtius hippoglossoides''
hellefisk Image:Rose_fish.jpg, Rose fish
''Sebastes marinus''
rødfisk Image:Seewolf.JPG, Seawolf
''Anarhichas lupus''
havkat

References

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