Species: Microgadus proximus

Pacific Tomcod
Species

    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

    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
    <img src="http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/GetMapGif?CA.BC=SNR&US.OR=S4" alt="Conservation Status Map" style="width: 475px; height: auto;" />
    Global Range
    Eastern Pacific Ocean from the Bering Sea to central California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).
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