Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Brosme brosme (Ascanius, 1772) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Blennius torsk Lacepède, 1800 (synonym)

Brosmius americanus Gill, 1863 (synonym)

Brosmius brosme (Ascanius, 1772) (synonym)

Brosmius flavescens Lesueur, 1819 (synonym)

Brosmius flavesny Lesueur, 1819 (synonym)

Brosmius scotica Swainson, 1839 (synonym)

Brosmius vulgaris Fleming, 1828 (synonym)

Enchelyopus brosme (Ascanius, 1772) (synonym)

Gadus brosme Ascanius, 1772 (synonym)

Gadus lubb Euphrasen, 1794 (synonym)

Gadus torsk Bonnaterre, 1788 (synonym)

Common names:

Assiette French

Bolota Portuguese

Brismak English

Brosma Faroese, Polish

Brosme French, German, Norwegian, Swedish

Brosmio Italian, Spanish

Brosmukálvur Faroese

Cusk English

Keila Finnish, Icelandic

Lom Dutch

Lubb Swedish

Lumb German, Swedish

Moonfish English

Torsk English, Norwegian, Swedish

Tusk English

Almindelig brosme Danish

Menyok Russian

Brosme Danish

Menek Russian

менек Russian

单鳍鳕 Mandarin Chinese

單鰭鱈 Mandarin Chinese

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Gadiformes

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Family Lotidae

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Genus Brosme

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Distribution:

Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic, Northeast; Atlantic, Northwest; Barents Sea; Canada; Celtic-Biscay Shelf; Denmark; Faeroe Islands; Faroe Plateau; Greenland; Greenland Sea; Iceland; Iceland Shelf/Sea; Ireland; Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf; North Sea; Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf; Northern Ireland; Northwest Atlantic: New Jersey to the Strait of Belle Isle and on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Rare at the southern tip of Greenland. Northeast Atlantic: off Iceland, in the northern North Sea, and along the coast of Scandinavia to the Murmansk Co; Norway; Norwegian Sea; Norwegian Shelf; Russian Federation; Scotland (UK); Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Sweden; United Kingdom; USA (contiguous states); West Greenland Shelf

Additional data:

Type species of the genus.

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2007

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 06-Sep-1994

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:dc1b06b4-29c1-102b-9a4a-00304854f820:ac2008


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