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Gadiformes

(Order)

Overview

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Gadiformes is an order of , also called the Anacanthini, that includes the cod and its allies. Many major food fish are in this order.

Common characteristics include the positioning of the pelvic fins (if present), below or anterior to the pectoral fins. Gadiformes are physoclists, which means that the gas bladder does not have a pneumatic duct. The fins are spineless.

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Taxonomy

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The Order Gadiformes is further organized into finer groupings including:

Families

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Bregmacerotidae

Codlets are a family, Bregmacerotidae, of -like fishes, containing the single genus Bregmaceros. [more]

Euclichthyidae

The Eucla cod, Euclichthys polynemus, is a deepwater marine fish belonging to the order (Gadiformes). It is the only species currently classified in the family Euclichthyidae. It is named after the town of Eucla, Western Australia, in whose coastal waters it is found. [more]

Gadidae

Gadidae is a family of marine fish, included in the order . It includes the cod, haddock, whiting, and pollock. Some other forms once included here have since been removed to other families; on the other hand, the tadpole cod family Ranicipitidae has now been absorbed into Gadidae (it only contains one species, the tadpole fish, Raniceps raninus). [more]

Lotidae

Lotidae is a family of -like fishes commonly known as lings or rocklings. [more]

Macrouridae

Grenadiers or rattails (less commonly whiptails) are generally large, brown to black marine fish of the family Macrouridae. Found at great depths from the Arctic to Antarctic, members of this family are among the most abundant of the deep-sea fishes. Grenadiers are seen in the film Titanic, where the fish are glimpsed during ROV reconnaissance of the wreck. [more]

Mcconichthyidae

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Melanonidae

Melanonidae is a family of -like marine fishes. [more]

Merluccidae

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Merlucciidae

Merlucciidae is a family of -like fishes, including most hakes. [more]

Moridae

Moridae is a family of -like fishes, known as codlings, hakelings and moras. They are marine fishes found throughout the world, and grow up to 90 cm long (red codling, Pseudophycis bachus). [more]

Muraenolepididae

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Phycidae

Phycidae is a family of in the order Gadiformes. They are native to the Atlantic Ocean, but the juveniles of some species enter estuaries. Joseph Nelson classifies this family as the subfamily Phycinae of the cod family, Gadidae. [more]

At least 34 species and subspecies belong to the Family Phycidae.

More info about the Family Phycidae may be found here.

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Last Revised: November 19, 2008