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Gadus ogac Richardson, 1836 
AphiaID: 158926

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Gadiformes (Order) > Gadidae (Family) > Gadus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Gadus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Gadus callarias marisalbi Derjugin, 1920
Gadus callarias marsi-Albi Derjugin, 1920 (misspelling)
Gadus callarius maris-albi Derjugin, 1920 (misspelling)
Gadus morhua marisalbi Derjugin, 1920
Gadus morhua ogac Richardson, 1836
Gadus ogat Krøyer, 1847
Gadus ovak Reinhardt, 1837
Sources  basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

basis of record: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English Greenland cod  [details]
French ogac  [details]
Welsh penfras yr Ynys Las  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Hudson Bay [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Ungava Bay [details]
Host of  Clavella adunca (Strøm, 1762) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaeocera branchialis (Linnaeus, 1767) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (55 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To GenBank (35 nucleotides; 60 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on fishes, shrimps, crabs, euphausiids, squids, polychaetes, and echinoderms [details]

Distribution: Arctic and Northwest Atlantic: Port Barrow, Alaska to West Greenland, then south along Canadian coast to the Miramichi, Gulf of St. Lawrence and Cape Breton Island. [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]

Habitat: Lives close to the coast and is rarely found offshore, in deeper water. [details]

Importance: Social- Comercial, fishery [details]
Image 
Gadus ogac
Gadus ogac
added on 2011-02-14 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158926
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 07:39:43Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Gadus ogac Richardson, 1836. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158926 on 2013-05-26
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