Agonidae

Arctic alligatorfish

Aspidophoroides olrikii

Agonid Fish in Northeast Pacific

• Polar
• Circumpolar Arctic
• Northern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Atlantic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• North America
• Polar regions
• Elongated
• Small
• Cold-water fish

The Arctic alligatorfish (Aspidophoroides olrikii) is a fish in the family Agonidae. It was described by C.F. Lütken in 1877. It is a marine and brackish-water dwelling fish which is known from the Arctic, the northwestern Atlantic and northwestern and northeastern Pacific Ocean, including Canada, Greenland, Siberia, the Barents Sea, the White Sea, the Kara Sea, the Chukchi Sea, the Bering Sea, the Bering Strait, and the Anadyr Gulf.