Greenland cod
gadus ogac latin

The stock of Greenland cod has been strongly reduced in recent years.

The lake is home to Greenland cod.

In colour the Greenland cod is generally sombre, ranging from tan to brown to silvery.

It has several common names, including "Polar cod" and "Greenland cod".

Apart from Arctic cod and polar cod, the fish has been called Greenland cod.

The Greenland cod, Gadus ogac, known also as ogac, is a commercially harvested food fish.

Furthermore, Greenland cod (G. ogac) is no longer considered a distinct species but rather a subspecies of Pacific cod (G. macrocephalus).

However, molecular genetic analyses strongly suggest that Greenland cod is not different from Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus; Gadus ogac is then a junior synonym of G. macrocephalus.

Note, however, that all these common names are also used for other Arctic gadid species: both "Arctic cod" and "polar cod" are used for Boreogadus saida, while "Greenland cod" most commonly refers to the species Gadus ogac.

Atlantic halibut, redfish, deepwater redfish, Greenland halibut, and lumpfish are fished from the west coast, as are Greenland cod (Gadus ogac) and shorthorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius), but these two are eaten only as a last resort.

Cod is the common name for fish of the genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae, and this article is confined to the three species that belong to this genus: the Atlantic cod, the Pacific cod and the Greenland cod.

Molecular genetic analyses strongly suggest that Pacific cod and Greenland cod (Gadus ogac) from Greenland-the Arctic ocean are the same species; G. ogac is then a junior synonym of G. macrocephalus.

Atlantic halibut, redfish, deepwater redfish, Greenland halibut, and lumpfish are fished from the west coast, as are Greenland cod (Gadus ogac) and shorthorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius), but these two are eaten only as a last resort.