#2359 · 🐟 fish
Lingcod
Ophiodon elongatus
🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe
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what is it?
The lingcod or ling cod ( Ophiodon elongatus ), also known as the buffalo cod or cultus cod , is a fish of the greenling family Hexagrammidae. 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.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,013 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles Frédéric Girard in 1854 (172 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lingcod
- scientific name
- Ophiodon elongatus
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Hexagrammidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,013
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1854 by Charles Frédéric Girard
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 52539, Wikidata Q81964, GBIF 2336521, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.