Boreogadus saida
Description
Boreogadus saida (Lepechin, 1774).
Arctic Cod or Polar Cod. To 46 cm (18.1 in) TL (Wienerroither et al. 2011), usually less than 25 cm (9.8 in) (Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990). The largest we know of from our area is a specimen from the Chukchi Sea measuring 30 cm (12 in) TL (Alverson and Wilimovsky 1966). Circumpolar in Arctic (Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990); Arctic Siberia to Cape Olyutorskiy, western Bering Sea; Beaufort Sea (Frost and Lowry 1981) to Bristol Bay, south-eastern Bering Sea (Allen and Smith 1988). Taken as far north as 88°26’N, 126°26’E (Mecklenburg et al. 2007). Brackish lagoons, river mouths (Morrow 1980), and ocean; depth: surface to at least 1,390 m (4,559 ft) (min.: Renaud in Coad and Reist 2018; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2011).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gadidae
- Genus
- Boreogadus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Gadiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lepechin
- Species
- saida
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Boreogadus saida (Lepechin, 1774) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Wienerroither, R., Johanneson, E., Langoy, H., Erikson, K. B., de Lange Wenneck, T., Hoines, A. & Bjelland, O. (2011) Atlas of the Barents Sea fishes. IMR / PINRO Joint Report Series, 1 - 2011.
- Cohen, D. M., Inada, T., Iwamoto, T. & Scialabba, N. (1990) FAO Species Catalogue. Gadiform Fishes of the World. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125, Volume 10. FAO, Rome.
- Alverson, D. L. & Wilimovsky, N. J. (1966) Fishery investigations of the southeastern Chukchi Sea. In: Wilimovsky, N. J. & Wolfe, N. (Eds), Environment of the Cape Thompson Region, Alaska. United States Atomic Energy Commission, p. 843 - 860.
- Allen, M. J. & Smith, G. B. (1988) Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 66.
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Stein, D. L., Sheiko, B. A., Chernova, N. V., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Holladay, B. A. (2007) Russian-American long-term census of the Arctic: benthic fishes trawled in the Chukchi Sea and Bering Sea, August 2004. Northwestern Naturalist, 88, 168 - 187. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 1051 - 1733 (2007) 88 [168: rlcota] 2.0. co; 2
- Morrow, J. E. (1980) The Freshwater Fishes of Alaska. Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, Anchorage.
- Coad, B. W. & Reist, J. D. (Eds.). (2018) Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Moller, P. R. & Steinke, D. (2011) Biodiversity of arctic marine fishes: taxonomy and zoogeography. Marine Biodiversity, 41, 109 - 140. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 010 - 0070 - z