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Boreogadus saida

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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).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFDEFFFA98EAFED4FF70321C

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FFDEFFFA98EAFED4FF70321C (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191883388 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FFDEFFFA98EAFED4FF70321C.taxon (URL)

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