Gadus morhua

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Overview

Vulnerable

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Biome: Marine .

Biology

Diet

Cod are omnivorous ; they feed at dawn or dusk on invertebrates and fish, including young cod.

Reproduction

Cod spawn once a year.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Gadus arenosus Mitchill • Gadus callarias kildinensis Derjugin • Gadus callarias Linnaeus • Gadus heteroglossus Walbaum • Gadus morhua callarias Linnaeus • Gadus morhua kildinensis Derjugin • Gadus morhua morhua Linnaeus • Gadus morrhua Linnaeus • Gadus nanus Faber • Gadus rupestris Mitchill • Gadus vertagus Walbaum • Morhua punctatus Fleming • Morhua vulgaris Fleming • Morrhua americana Storer • Morrhua vulgaris Fleming

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Incorrectly spelled as mor*r*hua by many authors [1].

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 06-Sep-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Gadus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 39 species and subspecies in this genus:

G. macrocephalus (Atlantic Navaga) · G. aeglefinus (London Cut Cure) · G. australis (New Zealand Hake) · G. blennoides (Greater Fork-Beard) · G. brosme (Moonfish) · G. callarias (Baltic Cod) · G. chalcogrammus (Walleyed Pollock) · G. cimbrius (Four-Bearded Rockling) · G. compressus (Blue Ling) · G. esmarkii (Norway Pout) · G. fimbria (Candlefish) · G. glacialis (Arctic Cod) · G. gracilis (Pacific Saffron Cod) · G. lepidion (Mediterranean Codling) · G. lota (Thin-Tailed Burbot) · G. luscus (Pout Whiting) · G. macrocephalus (Alaska Blackfish) · G. magellanicus (Orange Throat Notothen) · G. maraldi (Morid Cod) · G. mediterraneus (Mediterranean Three-Barbeled Rockling) · G. merlangus (North Sea Whiting) · G. merlangus merlangus (North Sea Whiting) · G. merluccius (Atlantic Hake) · G. minutus (Poor Cod) · G. molva (European Ling) · G. morhua (Atlantic Cod) · G. morhua callarias (Baltic Cod) · G. morhua morhua (Newfoundland Fish) · G. moro (Googly-Eyed Cod) · G. mustela (Five-Bearded Rockling) · G. navaga (Atlantic Navaga) · G. ogac (White Sea Nonmigratory Cod) · G. ovak (White Sea Nonmigratory Cod) · G. pollachius (European Pollock) · G. proximus (Pacific Tomcod) · G. tenuis (Boston Hake) · G. tomcod (Atlantic Tomcod) · G. virens (American Pollack) · G. wachna (Indian River Shad)

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Further Reading

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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:

• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, MCZ Fish Collection
• Royal Ontario Museum, Fish specimens
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Swedish Board of Fisheries
• - Institute of Coastal Research
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Marine Biological Association - Marine Life Survey Data
• collated by MarLIN
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Marine Biological Association - Marine survey data
• held by MarLIN.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3863679
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-29394
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2279155
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 164712
• IUCN ID: 210289
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCMA08020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 154137

Footnotes

1. Hero, J.-M., Roberts, D., Horner, P., Retallick, R., Parker, F. & Iskandar, D. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Down ... [back]

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