Atlantic cod
Gadus morhua
- Usual depth15–269 m
- Water temperature-1–16 °C
- Best monthsFebruary, March, and November
- How commonCommon
Photo credit: (c) Viktor V. Grøtan, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Viktor V. Grøtan · CC BY · iNaturalist
About this species
The Atlantic cod is a fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans. It is also commercially known as cod or codling.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Atlantic cod”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 2,190 records
- February: 3,522 records
- March: 3,743 records
- April: 1,568 records
- May: 1,918 records
- June: 2,144 records
- July: 2,304 records
- August: 2,245 records
- September: 2,523 records
- October: 2,420 records
- November: 3,037 records
- December: 2,191 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 15–269 m · Deepest record: 991 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of -1–16 °C
Photos
no rights reserved, uploaded by Wouter Koch · CC0 1.0 · iNaturalist 
(c) Klaus Kevin Kristensen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist 
(c) Nicola Faulks, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist 
(c) Julien Savoie, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist 
(c) Dan Bender, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist 
no rights reserved · CC0 1.0 · iNaturalist
Names and classification
- English
- Atlantic cod, Cod, Arctic Cod, Atlantic Cod, Atlantic cod, Cod, Bacalao, Bacaleau, Baccalao, Baccale, Baccalo, Bank Cod, Bank Fish, Bastard, Berry Fish, Bim Fish, Blackberry Fish, Brazil Fish, Breeder, Broken Fish, Bull Dog, Christmas Fish, cod, Codd, Codde, Cod-fish, Codfish Brick, Codling, Core Fish, Corre Fish, Cut-tail, Dry Fish, Duffy, Dumb Fish, Dum Fish, Dun Fish, Eating Fish, Fall Cure, Fall Fish, Fish, Fish Ball, Fish Dumpling, Floater Fish, Floaters Fish, Foots, Foxy Tom-cod, Full Cured Fish, Full Pickle Fish, Gaspé Cure, Green Fish, Grog Fish, Haberdine, Half-saved, Harbour Tom-cod, Hard Cure, Hard-dry, Heavy Fish, Heavy Salt, Heavy Salted, Hen, Inshore Cod, Italian, Jersey Fish, Jigger Fish, Kil'din Cod, Klipfish, Klippfish, Labrador Cure, Labrador Fish, Lady Day Fish, Laggy, Lap Tail, Leggy, Loader, Logy Fish, Madeira, Merchantable, Mother Fish, Mud Fish, Newfoundland Fish, Northern Cod, Old Soaker, Pea, Pink Fish, Poor John, Puerto Rico Fish, Red-cod, Refuse Fish, Rock Cod, Rounder, Salt-bulk, Saltfish, Salt Fish, Schrod, Scrad, Scraud, Scrawd, Screwed Fish, Scrod, Seal-head Cod, Semi-dry, Shoal Cod, Shoal Fish, Shore Cod, Shore Fish, Shore Labrador, Slop, Snig, Snub, Snubby, Soaker, Soft Cure, Soft Cured, Spanish Fish, Split, Stockfish, Straits Fish, Strip, Summer Cod-fish, Summer Fish, Swallow, Swallow Tail, Tally Fish, Thirds, Tom-cod, Trap Cod, Trap Fish, West India, West Indian, Winter Fish
Names in 3 more languages
- German
- Atlantischer Kabeljau, Dorsch, Kabeljau
- Spanish
- bacalao, Bacalao, bacalao común, bacalao del Atlántico, Bacalao del Atlántico
- French
- cabillaud, Cabillaud, cabillaud de l'Atlantique, cabillaud, morue, morue, Morue, Morue Commune, Morue de l'Atlantique, Morue de l'Atlantique, Morue franche, Cabillaud, morue franche, Morue franche, morus
Other scientific names: Asellus major, Gadus arenosus, Gadus callarias, Gadus callarius, Gadus heteroglossus, Gadus morrhua, Gadus nanus, Gadus rupestris, Gadus vertagus, Morhua punctatus, Morhua vulgaris, Morrhua americana, Morrhua vulgaris
Similar species
Alaska pollockGadus chalcogrammus
Pacific codGadus macrocephalus
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 3,172,118 open-data records from 1715 to 2025.
- Species data updated November 2, 2026.
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