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Moridae
Schmidt's cod
Lepidion schmidti
Eighty Five Centimeters Morid Fish from New Zealand Waters
Schmidt's cod is a marine fish from Southwest Pacific. It inhabits deep water. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 85 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cods and Hakes
- Family
- Moridae
- Genus
- Lepidion
- Maximum length
- 85 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Southwest Pacific: Australia and New Zealand. Northwest Pacific: Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk (Ref. 559 ). South Indian Ocean: Kerguelen Is. and Crozet Is. (Ref, 45488). North Atlantic.

