Arctogadus

Arctogadus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gadiformes
Family: Gadidae
Genus: Arctogadus
Dryagin, 1932
Species:
A. glacialis
Binomial name
Arctogadus glacialis
Synonyms

Arctogadus borisovi Dryagin, 1932
Gadus glacialis W. K. H. Peters, 1872
Phocaegadus megalops Jensen, 1948

Arctogadus glacialis, known also with ambiguous common names Arctic cod[1][2] and polar cod,[1][3] is an Arctic species of fish in the cod family Gadidae, related to the true cod (genus Gadus). Arctogadus glacialis is found in icy water. They grow to about 30 cm long, and are favorite food of narwhals and other arctic whales.

  1. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Arctogadus glacialis". FishBase. April 2012 version.
  2. ^ Daniel M. Cohen; Tadashi Inada; Tomio Iwamoto & Nadia Scialabba, eds. (1990). FAO species catalogue. Vol. 10. Gadiform fishes of the world (Order Gadiformes). An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cods, Hakes, Grenadiers and other Gadiform Fishes Known to Date. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. pp. 25–27. ISBN 978-92-5-102890-2.
  3. ^ Polar Cod Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine University of Guelph.