Red codling
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| Red codling | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gadiformes |
| Family: | Moridae |
| Genus: | Pseudophycis |
| Species: | P. bachus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudophycis bachus (Forster, 1801) |
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The red codling or hoka,[1] Pseudophycis bachus, is a morid cod of the genus Pseudophycis, found around southern Australia and New Zealand, from the surface to 700 m. Its length is up to 90 cm. P. bachus is a food source for the diving Yellow-eyed Penguin, Megadyptes antipodes
[edit] Notes
- ^ Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. 2006
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Pseudophycis bachus" in FishBase. March 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox. 1982. Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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