Rock cod, reef cod, and coral cod Īlmost all coral cod, reef cod or rock cod are also in order Perciformes. The notothen family, Nototheniidae, including:.Murray cod Maccullochella peelii peelii.Mary River cod Maccullochella peelii mariensis.
Eastern freshwater cod Maccullochella ikei.The common names for the following species have become well established note that all inhabit the Southern Hemisphere.įish of the order Perciformes that are commonly called "cod" include: Severely shrunken Atlantic cod stocks have led to the marketing of cod replacements using culinary names of the form " x cod", according to culinary rather than phyletic similarity. Part of this name confusion is market-driven. Some fish commonly known as cod are unrelated to Gadus. ("Codling" is also used as a name for a young cod.) Some fish have common names derived from "cod", such as codling, codlet, or tomcod. "Cod" in the order Gadiformes, but not part of Gadus Common name The tadpole cod family ( Ranicipitidae) has now been placed in Gadidae. Many are members of the family Gadidae others are members of three related families within the order Gadiformes whose names include the word "cod": the morid cods, Moridae (100 or so species) the eel cods, Muraenolepididae (four species) and the Eucla cod, Euclichthyidae (one species). Related species Ĭod forms part of the common name of many other fish no longer classified in the genus Gadus. But there are also less widespread alternative trade names highlighting the fish's belonging to the cod genus, like snow cod or bigeye cod. The fourth species of genus Gadus, Gadus chalcogrammus, is commonly called Alaska pollock or walleye pollock. Three species in the genus Gadus are currently called cod: The usage often changes with different localities and at different times. However, many other, unrelated species also have common names ending with cod. All these species have a number of common names, most of them ending with the word "cod", whereas other species, as closely related, have other common names (such as pollock and haddock). Most of these are now either classified in other genera, or have been recognized as forms of one of three species. 9.1 Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fisheryĪt various times in the past, taxonomists included many species in the genus Gadus.1.3.2 Rock cod, reef cod, and coral cod.In the United Kingdom, Atlantic cod is one of the most common ingredients in fish and chips, along with haddock and plaice. Young Atlantic cod or haddock prepared in strips for cooking is called scrod. Cod livers are processed to make cod liver oil, a common source of vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, and omega-3 fatty acids ( EPA and DHA). morhua callarias, a low-salinity, nonmigratory race restricted to parts of the Baltic, was originally described as Gadus callarias by Linnaeus.)Ĭod is popular as a food with a mild flavour and a dense, flaky, white flesh. Gadus morhua was named by Linnaeus in 1758. The two most common species of cod are the Atlantic cod ( Gadus morhua), which lives in the colder waters and deeper sea regions throughout the North Atlantic, and the Pacific cod ( Gadus macrocephalus), found in both eastern and western regions of the northern Pacific. 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). Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae.
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