Gadiformes

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Gadiformes

Gadiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Anacanthini, that includes the cod

Cod

Cod is the common name for the genus of fish Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae, and is also used in the common name of a variety of other fishes....
and its allies. Many major food fish are in this order. They are found in marine waters throughout the world, and there are also a small number of freshwater species.

Common characteristics include the positioning of the pelvic fins (if present), below or in front of the pectoral fins.

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Gadiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Anacanthini, that includes the cod

Cod

Gas bladder

The gas bladder is an internal gas-filled Organ that contributes to the ability of a fish to control its buoyancy, and thus to stay at the current water depth without having to waste energy in swimming....
does not have a pneumatic duct. The fins are spineless. Gadiform fish range in size from the codlet

Codlet

Codlets are a family, Bregmacerotidae, of cod-like fishes, containing the single genus Bregmaceros.They are found in tropical and subtropical waters throughout the world....
s, which may be as little as in adult length, to the Atlantic cod

Atlantic cod

The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, is a well-known demersal seafood belonging to the family Gadidae.In the western Atlantic Ocean cod has a distribution north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and round both coasts of Greenland; in the eastern Atlantic it is found from the Bay of Biscay north to the Arctic Ocean, including the North Sea, a...
, Gadus morhua, which reaches up to .

Gadiformes

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