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Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 154388

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Gadiformes (Order) > Lotidae (Family) > Lota (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Lota Oken, 1817
Synonymised
taxa
  Enchelyopus lota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gadus compressus Lesueur, 1817
Gadus lacustris Walbaum, 1792
Gadus lota Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym)
Gadus maculosa Lesueur, 1817 (misspelling)
Gadus maculosus Lesueur, 1817
Lota brosmiana Storer, 1842
Lota brosmina Storer, 1842 (misspelling)
Lota communis Rapp, 1854
Lota compressa (Lesueur, 1817)
Lota fluviatilis Perty, 1832
Lota inornata DeKay, 1842
Lota linnei Malm, 1877
Lota lota asiatica Kirillov, 1972
Lota lota kamensis Markun, 1936
Lota lota lacustris (Walbaum, 1792)
Lota lota leptura Hubbs & Schultz, 1941
Lota lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lota lota maculosa (Lesueur, 1817)
Lota lota onegensis Melyantsev, 1948
Lota maculosa (Lesueur, 1817)
Lota marmorata Koch, 1840
Lota vulgaris Fitzinger, 1832
Lota vulgaris obensis Anikin, 1902
Molva lota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Molva maculosa (Lesueur, 1817)
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Bulgarian Налим  [details]
Danish knude  [details]
Dutch kwabaal  [details]
English burbot  [details]
French lote  [details]
French lotte  [details]
German Quappe  [details]
German Rutte  [details]
Lithuanian vėgėlė  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål lake  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk lake  [details]
Polish miętus  [details]
Romanian burbot  [details]
Romanian mihalţ  [details]
Romanian mihoarcă  [details]
Russian налим  [details]
Russian Налим речной  [details]
Spanish lota  [details]
Swedish lake  [details]
Turkish gelincik balığı  [details]
Ukrainian Минь  [details]
Ukrainian Минь річковий  [details]
Welsh penfras dwr croyw  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 
Subspecies Lota lota asiatica Kirillov, 1972 accepted as Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Lota lota kamensis Markun, 1936 accepted as Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Lota lota lacustris (Walbaum, 1792) accepted as Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Lota lota leptura Hubbs & Schultz, 1941 accepted as Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Lota lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Lota lota maculosa (Lesueur, 1817) accepted as Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Lota lota onegensis Melyantsev, 1948 accepted as Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Black Sea [details]
British Columbia [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Hudson Bay [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Territories [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Ungava Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Host of  Ergasilus sieboldi von Nordmann, 1832 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus caeruleus Wilson C.B., 1911 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus celestis Mueller J.F., 1937 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus osburni Tidd & Bangham, 1945 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaea cyprinacea Linnaeus, 1758 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Salmincola lotae (Olsson, 1877) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (44 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (184 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Species fact sheets
To GenBank (844 nucleotides; 144 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Images 
Lota lota (Linneaus, 1758)
Lota lota (Linneaus, 1758)
added on 2006-08-16 - author: RIVO/Henk Heessen/2005
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Lota lota (Linneaus, 1758)
Lota lota (Linneaus, 1758)
added on 2006-08-16 - author: RIVO/Henk Heessen/2005
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Lota lota
Lota lota
added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Gekweekte kwabaal - Lota lota
Gekweekte kwabaal - Lota lota
added on 2012-10-18
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Gekweekte kwabaal - Lota lota
Gekweekte kwabaal - Lota lota
added on 2012-10-18
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154388
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-04-18 08:19:08Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154388 on 2013-06-19
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