Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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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
).