Greenland cod
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Greenland cod (plural Greenland cod)
- A species of ray-finned fish in the cod family, (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., syn. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.).
- 1873, United States Bureau of Fisheries, Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries[1], U.S. Government Printing Office:
- Gadus ojac Rich. (d. s.)—Greenland cod-fish; ojac or ovak (Greenland). Polar regions.
- 1990, Daniel M. Cohen, Gadiform Fishes of the World:
- Greenland cods have been observed to perform migrations over 1000 km, northeastern Atlantic cod, 800-900 km, while cod of the North Sea, the Channel, and the Irish Sea undertake migrations of lesser magnitude.
- 2007, George A. Rose, Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries[2]:
- The Greenland cod (Gadus ogac) is often called rock cod in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Further reading
- Greenland cod on Wikipedia.Wikipedia