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

cod Cod (: cod) is the common name for the demersal fish genus ''Gadus'', belonging to the family (biology), 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 ''Gad ...

, 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 ar ...

. 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 east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...

. They do not grow larger than and are of minor importance to local commercial fisheries.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'', 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 east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern ...

and adjacent Atlantic waters *'' Gadiculus thori'', from the

Bay of Biscay The Bay of Biscay ( ) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western coast of France from Point Penmarc'h to the Spanish border, and along the northern coast of Spain, extending westward ...

north up to the North Cape.

References

Gadidae Taxa named by Alphonse Guichenot {{Gadiformes-stub