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Arctogadus glacialis (Polar cod; Cod; Artic cod; Arctic cod)

Synonyms: Arctogadus borisovi; Boreogadus pearyi; Gadus glacialis; Phocaegadus megalops
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Wikipedia Abstract

Arctogadus glacialis, known also with ambiguous common names Arctic cod and polar cod, is an Arctic species of fish in the cod family Gadidae, related to the true cod (genus Gadus). Arctogadus glacialis is found in icy water. They grow to about 30 cm long, and are favorite food of narwhals and other arctic whales.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Aleutian Islands Biosphere Reserve 2720489 Alaska, United States    

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♦ 1Body size, sex ratio and diet composition of Arctogadus glacialis (Peters, 1874) (Pisces: Gadidae) in the Northeast Water Polynya (Greenland), Lis Süfke, Dieter Piepenburg, Christian F. von Dorrien, Polar Biol (1998) 20: 357-363
♦ 2"Trophic ecology of sympatric Arctic gadoids, Arctogadus glacialis (Peters, 1872) and Boreogadus saida (Lepechin, 1774), in NE Greenland", Jørgen S. Christiansen, Haakon Hop, Einar M. Nilssen, John Joensen, Polar Biology August 2012, Volume 35, Issue 8, pp 1247-1257
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0