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Gadidae
poutassou
Micromesistius poutassou
Black dot at pectoral base
- Temperate
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Africa
- Europe
- North America
- Elongated
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
Largepoutassou is a marine fish of Northeast Atlantic. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 55.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cods and Hakes
- Family
- Gadidae
- Genus
- Micromesistius
- Maximum length
- 55.5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Northeast Atlantic: Barents Sea south through the eastern Norwegian Sea, around Iceland, then in the western Mediterranean, and south along the African coast to Cape Bojador. Northwest Atlantic: southern Greenland and off southeast Canada and the northeastern coast of the USA.
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