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Boreogadus saida, known as the polar cod [1] [2] [3] or as the Arctic cod, [1] [4] [5] is a fish of the cod family Gadidae, related to the true cod (genus Gadus).Another fish species for which both the common names Arctic cod and polar cod are used is Arctogadus glacialis.
Cod (pl.: cod) is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae. [1] 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 called cod (Alaska pollock, Gadus chalcogrammus).
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups.Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings.
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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. [3] [n 1]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 ...
The Gadidae are a family of marine fish, included in the order Gadiformes, known as the cods, codfishes, or true cods. [2] It contains several commercially important fishes, including the cod, haddock, whiting, and pollock.
Cod feed on mollusks, crabs, starfish, worms, squid, and small fish. Some migrate south in winter to spawn. A large female lays up to five million eggs in mid-ocean, a very small number of which survive. Cod has been an important economic commodity in international markets since the Viking period (around A.D. 800).
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