Genus
Ophiodon (Lingcods)
Ophiodon elongatus. Photo: (c) Daryl Coldren, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
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.
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