Species: Microgadus proximus

Pacific Tomcod
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Fishes of Puget Sound and adjacent waters
Fishes of the Salish Sea

Articles:

Paper: Shifts in the estuarine demersal fish community after a fishery closure in Puget Sound, Washington

This paper looks at 21 years of data on estuarine demersal fish in Puget Sound, assessing changes in population after the closure of bottom trawl fisheries.

Rock Sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata); image courtesy Freshwater and Marine Image Bank, University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Gadiformes

Family

Gadidae

Genus

Microgadus

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Source:
ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.103786
Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Fishes - Bony Fishes - Other Bony Fishes
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Gadiformes - Gadidae - Microgadus
Habitat Type Description
Marine
Migration
false - false - false
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Ecology Comments
An important prey species (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-09-20
Global Status Last Changed
1996-09-20
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Eastern Pacific Ocean from the Bering Sea to central California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).
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