Gadella maraldi, the gadella or morid cod, is a species of fish in the family Moridae from the warmer waters of the north eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gadiformes |
| Family: | Moridae |
| Genus: | Gadella |
| Species: | G. maraldi
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Description
editGadella maraldi grow to a maximum length of 30 centimetres (12 in). Its upper jaw has two rows of teeth, the outer row is made up of small teeth interspersed with notably large ones; the inner one only has small teeth. The anal fin originates on the anterior third of body, under the origin of anterior dorsal fin while the pectoral fins reach well past the origin of the anal fin. The filamentous ray of the pelvic fins extends slightly beyond the anal fin origin. It is generally dark in colour with a pale mouth cavity.[3]
Distribution
editGadella maraldi is found in the warmer waters of the north eastern Atlantic from the southern Atlantic coast of Portugal south to west Africa, its southern limit in Africa being uncertain. Its Atlantic range includes the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores, as well as the Grand Meteor Bank. In the Mediterranean Sea it occurs from the coast of Spain and the Balearics to the Aegean Sea and Levantine Sea.[1] It has been recorded as far north as Galicia and three specimens were taken from the Porcupine Bank off Ireland in the 21st Century.[4]
Habitat and ecology
editGadella maraldi is a benthopelagic fish which can be found on the upper continental slope, over hard substrates at depths ranging from 150 to 700 m, to 368–748m in the east Ionian Sea. Spawning most likely takes place in the Spring and it has pelagic larvae. Its diet is not known.[1] It attains sexual maturity at a length of 15 cm.[3]
Fisheries
editIt is taken as a bycatch and occasionally recorded in markets but it is not a commercially significant species.[3]
Naming
editThe specific name maraldi honours the French-Italian astronomer and mathematician Giacomo F. Maraldi (1665-1729), who was also known as Jacques Maraldi.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c Iwamoto, T. (2015). "Gadella maraldi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T198600A15576985. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T198600A15576985.en.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Gadella maraldi". FishBase. February 2018 version.
- ^ a b c Daniel M. Cohen; Tadashi Inada; Tomio Iwamoto & Nadia Scialabba, eds. (1990). VOL.10 GADIFORM FISHES OF THE WORLD (Order Gadiformes) An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cods, Hakes, Grenadiers and other Gadiform Fishes Known to Date (PDF). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. pp. 359–360. ISBN 978-92-5-102890-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ Susana Ruiz-Pico; Juan C Arronte; Rafael Baňón & Olaya Fernández-Zapico (2012). "Northernmost records of Gadella maraldi (Actinopterygii: Gadiformes: Moridae) in the North-Eastern Atlantic". Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria. 42 (3): 263–267. doi:10.3750/AIP2011.42.3.12.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (2018). "Order GADIFORMES: Families EUCLICHTHYIDAE, MORIDAE, MACRURONIDAE, MERLUCCIIDAE, RANICIPITIDAE, BREGMACEROTIDAE, MURAENOLEPIDIDAE and GADIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 9 April 2018.