Ophiodon elongatus Girard 1854
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Scorpaeniformes
- family
- Hexagrammidae
- genus
- Ophiodon
- species
- Ophiodon elongatus
description
Lingcod. To 152 cm (60 in) TL (Wilby 1937). Just north of Alaska Peninsula (56 ° 31.2 ’ N, 161 ° 00.6 ’ W) (Personal communication: University of Alaska Fairbanks Fish Collection, Fairbanks, Alaska), Shumagin Islands, south-western Gulf of Alaska to Punta San Carlos, central Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Isla Natividad (Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015). Fall et al. (2007) reported that lingcod were taken in the eastern Bering Sea from 2003 – 2006 in the subsistence Pacific halibut fishery; catches were made as far north as the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Benthic; depth: intertidal to 750 m (2,460 ft) (min.: confirmed by M. L., unpubl. data; max.: NWFSC-FRAM).
Name
- Homonyms
- Ophiodon elongatus Girard 1854