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Species
blue whiting
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderGadiformes
- FamilyGadidae
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Micromesistius
- Image
- Faroe stamp 423 blue whiting.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Micromesistius poutassou
- Commons category
- Micromesistius poutassou
- MCN code
- 0302.56.00
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- Micromesistius poutassou
- taxon common name
- abril
- short name
- M. poutassou
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Encyclopedic overview
The blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) one of the two species in the genus Micromesistius in the order of Gadiformes, which also contains cod, haddock, whiting, and pollock. It is common in the northeast Atlantic Ocean from Morocco to Iceland and Spitsbergen. It also occurs in the northern parts of the Mediterranean, where it may be locally abundant. Blue whiting also occur in the northwest Atlantic Ocean between Canada and Greenland, but is considered rare. It has a long, narrow body and a silvery underbody. The fish can attain a length of more than 40 cm. The average length of blue whiting caught off the west shores of the UK is 31 cm.
A related species, southern blue whiting, Micromesistius australis, occurs in the Southern Hemisphere.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blue whiting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.