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Gadus morhua

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Gadus morhua

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Also known as Atlantic cod, cod

benthopelagic fish of the family Gadidae

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Gadus morhua, commonly known as the Atlantic cod, is a species of fish in the family Gadidae. It belongs to the order Gadiformes, class Teleostei, and phylum Chordata. The scientific name was established by Linnaeus in 1758. Other common names include Cabillaud, Morue, Morue Commune, and Morue de l'Atlantique. The species inhabits marine and brackish environments.

The Atlantic cod has a life expectancy of 25 years and a length of 0.90. Its main food sources are herring, capelin, Teuthida, and mussels. The species is classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, a status assigned in 1996, and holds an Endangered status regionally. It is not extinct.

Records of Gadus morhua exist in various collections, including institutions in Iceland, Belgium, Norway, the United Kingdom, and Sweden. The species has been the subject of 2156 PubMed entries and has 2,565,894 occurrence records.

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Species

Vulnerable

Atlantic cod

Gadus morhua

SPECIES

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderGadiformes
  5. FamilyGadidae
Habitatmarine, brackish
Observations1,450
Observations recorded2,565,894

Cod is a cold-water species which prefers water temperatures around 10°C. It is a large fish. Cod can grow up to more than 1.5 meters long. However, due to overfishing, such large fish are rarely found in the North Sea nowadays. Cod have a typical chin barbel, a kind of beard, which they use to search for food in the sea floor. These fish are sometimes referred to as the vacuum cleaners of the sea bottom because they eat virtually everything. You usually find them close to the bottom, but they also swim higher up in the water column. Young cod are called codling.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
1,168
With media
58
Family
Gadidae
Collections
RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UWFC, CUMV
Recorded in
Iceland, Belgium, Norway, United Kingdom, Sweden, Netherlands, United States, Canada
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Research

2,156 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

The Atlantic cod (pl.: cod; Gadus morhua) is a fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans. It is also commercially known as cod or codling.

In the western Atlantic Ocean, cod has a distribution north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and around both coasts of Greenland and the Labrador Sea; in the eastern Atlantic, it is found from the Bay of Biscay north to the Arctic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Sea of the Hebrides, areas around Iceland and the Barents Sea.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gadus morhua” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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