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Ophiodon elongatus 294584903🐟

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SpeciesScorpaeniformesHexagrammidae
Fish

🐟Lingcod

Ophiodon elongatus Girard, 1854

The lingcod or ling cod is a fish of the greenling family Hexagrammidae. Despite its name, the lingcod is neither a cod nor a ling. It is also known as the buffalo cod, cultus cod, or Buckethead. It is the only extant member of the genus Ophiodon. A slightly larger, extinct species, Ophiodon ozymandias, is known from fossils from the Late Miocene of Southern California.

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Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Ophiodon elongatus yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
33 kg
Body length
1.52 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Everything we know about the Lingcod

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
33 kgrecord 59 kg · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
1.52 mmaximum recorded
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Maximum lifespan
20 yearsrecord 25 years · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
4.53
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.53 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
traumatogenic
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Volume l
33 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Lingcod yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderScorpaeniformes
  4. ›familyHexagrammidae
  5. ›genusOphiodon
  6. ›speciesOphiodon elongatus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. suborderCottioidei
  3. subfamilyOphiodontinae
  4. genusOphiodon
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. suborderCottioidei
  11. subfamilyOphiodontinae
  12. genusOphiodon
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Lengdorsch (de), キンムツ (ja), Ofiodon (pl), Ophiodon elongatus (nl), Ophiodon elongatus (fr), molva (es) … and 15 more languages
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