The Atlantic cod is a fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans. It is also commercially known as cod or codling. Dry cod may be prepared as unsalted stockfish, and as cured salt cod or clipfish.
Image: Atlantic Cod, Atlantischer Kabeljau (Gadus morhua)
Image: Atlantic cod
Atlantic cod are demersal fish—they prefer sea bottoms with coarse sediments.
Spawning female in captivity
Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae. Cod is also used as part of the common name for a number of other fish species, and one species that belongs to genus Gadus is commonly not called cod.
Atlantic cod
The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua
A fish with its gills infested with two cod worms
Preserved codfish