Maori cod

The Maori cod (Paranotothenia magellanica), also known as Magellanic rockcod, blue notothenia or orange throat notothen, is a species of notothen native to the Southern Ocean. "Maori chief" and "black cod", sometimes used for this species, usually refer to fishes from the related genus Notothenia. It occurs at depths from near the surface to 255 m (837 ft), though it is usually found at less than 20 m (66 ft). This species can reach a standard length of 38 cm (15 in). Being a perciform fish, it is unrelated to the true cods of the order Gadiformes. This species is commercially important as a food fish.[1]

Maori cod
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Perciformes
Suborder:
Notothenioidei
Family:
Nototheniidae
Genus:
Paranotothenia
Species:
P. magellanica
Binomial name
Paranotothenia magellanica
Synonyms
  • Gadus magellanicus J. R. Forster, 1801
  • Notothenia magellanica (J. R. Forster, 1801)
  • Notothenia macrocephalus Günther, 1860
  • Notothenia maoriensis Haast, 1873

References
  • "Paranotothenia magellanica". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 June 2006.
  • Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Paranotothenia magellanica" in FishBase. February 2014 version.
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