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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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-19
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Arctogadus glacialis
(Peters, 1874)
,
often dated 1872 (
Fricke
et al.
2020
). Arctic Cod or
Polar Cod
. To
60 cm
(
23.6 in
) TL (
Coad 1995
). Circumpolar as far northward as
81°41’N
(
Mecklenburg
et al.
2011
); two records off
Alaska
in Beaufort Sea, but north of
US
territorial waters (Mecklenburg
et al.
2002); a carcass washed up on the Chukchi coast near Wainwright,
Alaska
(
Mecklenburg
et al.
2014
). Pelagic and probably also benthic (
Jordan
et al.
2003
), typically far offshore beyond continental shelf under drifting ice and in ice cracks (Cohen in
Cohen
et al.
1990
), also in river mouths (
Jordan
et al.
2003
); depth:
0–930 m
(
3,051 ft
(min.: Renaud in Coad and Reist; max.:
Jordan
et al.
2003
). Molecular studies showed no genetic difference between
A. glacialis
and
Arctogadus borisovi
Dryagin, 1932
(
Møller
et al.
2002
), the so-called Toothed Cod.
Jordan
et al.
(2003)
examined morphology of both forms and revised the genus, classifying
A. borisovi
as a junior synonym of
A. glacialis
.