The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Gadus morhua

 – Vulnerable

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: ACTINOPTERYGII
Order: GADIFORMES
Family: GADIDAE
Scientific Name: Gadus morhua
Species Authority: Linnaeus, 1758
Common Name/s: ATLANTIC COD (Eng)

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: VU A1bd    ver 2.3 (1994)
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations: Needs updating
Assessor/s: Sobel, J.

Geographic Range

Countries: Native:

Belgium; Canada; Denmark; Estonia; Faroe Islands; Finland; France; Germany; Greenland; Guernsey; Iceland; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Isle of Man; Jersey; Latvia; Lithuania; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Russian Federation; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Sweden; United Kingdom; United States

FAO Marine Fishing Areas: Native:

Atlantic-northeast; Atlantic-northwest

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial; Freshwater; Marine

Citation: Sobel, J. 1996. Gadus morhua. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 12 May 2008.
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