''Gadiculus'', or the silvery pouts, are genus of

cod Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus '' Gadus'', belonging to the family Gadidae. Cod is also used as part of the common name for a number of other fish species, and one species that belongs to genus ''Gadus'' is commonly not call ...

, fishes in the family

Gadidae The Gadidae are a family of marine fish, included in the order Gadiformes, known as the cods, codfishes, or true cods. It contains several commercially important fishes, including the cod, haddock, whiting, and pollock. Most gadid species are ...

. They are distributed in the coastal waters of the Northeast Atlantic and the adjacent

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

. They do not grow larger than and are of minor importance to local

commercial fisheries Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often ...

.PAM Gaemers, JY Poulsen (2017
Recognition and Distribution of Two North Atlantic ''Gadiculus'' Species, ''G. argenteus'' and ''G. thori'' (Gadidae), Based on Otolith Morphology, Larval Pigmentation, Molecular Evidence, Morphometrics and Meristics
Fishes, 2(3), 15; doi:10.3390/fishes2030015
In

FishBase FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish). It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web.

, accessed June 2018''Gadiculus thori'' Schmidt, 1913
In

FishBase FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish). It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web.

, accessed June 2018

Species

Two species of ''Gadiculus'' are currently recognized: *''

Gadiculus argenteus ''Gadiculus argenteus'', or the silvery pout, is a species of cod found in the Northeast Atlantic region. It grows to a length of and is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries, being rather used as a bait fish. ''Gadiculus argenteus ...

'', in the western

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the e ...

and adjacent Atlantic waters *''

Gadiculus thori ''Gadiculus thori'' is a species of cod found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. It grows to a length of and is not of major importance to local commercial fisheries. ''Gadiculus thori'' was until recently considered a subspecies of the more ...

'', from the

Bay of Biscay The Bay of Biscay (), known in Spain as the Gulf of Biscay ( es, Golfo de Vizcaya, eu, Bizkaiko Golkoa), and in France and some border regions as the Gulf of Gascony (french: Golfe de Gascogne, oc, Golf de Gasconha, br, Pleg-mor Gwaskogn), ...

north up to the North Cape.

References

Gadidae Taxa named by Alphonse Guichenot {{Gadiformes-stub