Burbot
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Gadiformes Family: Lotidae Genus: Lota Species: L. lota
Binomial name
Lota lota Linnaeus, 1758

The burbot (Lota lota) is a freshwater fish related to the cods. It is also known as the lawyer, and eelpout, and closely related to the ling and the cusk. It is most common in streams and lakes of North America and Europe above 40°N latitude. They are fairly common in Lake Erie. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x780, 431 KB) A Burbot at the ground of Lake Walchensee, Germany (Bavarian) Image was taken by Achim R. Schloeffel File links The following pages link to this file: Burbot ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Animalia redirects here. ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... Orders See text The Actinopterygii are the ray-finned fish. ... Families Euclichthyidae (Eucla cod) Lotidae Macrouridae (grenadiers or rattails) Moridae (morid cods or moras) Melanonidae (pelagic cods) Macruronidae (southern hakes) Bregmacerotidae (codlets) Muraenolepididae (eel cods) Phycidae (phycid hakes) Merlucciidae (merluccid hakes) Gadidae (true cods) Gadiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Anacanthini, that includes the cod... Genera Brosme Ciliata Enchelyopus Gaidropsarus Lota Molva See text for species. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as  , (May 23, 1707[1] – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[2] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ... For the village on the Isle of Wight, see Freshwater, Isle of Wight. ... A giant grouper at the Georgia Aquarium Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold-blooded; covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. ... the world is coming to the end!!!!! cod is going to eat up alive and do us hard up the emmm. ... The eelpouts are a family (Zoarcidae) of perciform ray-finned fish. ... Ling may refer to: Several species of fish: Burbot, Lota lota. ... It has been suggested that Brosme brosme be merged into this article or section. ... Butchers Creek, Omeo, Victoria A stream, brook, beck, burn or creek, is a body of water with a detectable current, confined within a bed and banks. ... A man-made lake in Keukenhof, Netherlands A lake is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size contained on a body of land. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter phi, , gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the equator. ... Lake Erie (pronounced ) is the eleventh largest lake on Earth[2] and, of the five Great Lakes of North America, it is the fourth largest by surface area, the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume. ...

Burbot are the only freshwater fish that spawn in the winter, usually in late January.

In Britain, the burbot is possibly an extinct fish as it is believed that there have been no documented catches of the species since the 1970s [1]. If the burbot does still survive in the UK, the counties of Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire (particularly the River Derwent or River Ouse) seem to be the strongest candidates for areas in which the species might yet continue to survive [2]. There have been plans to re-introduce this freshwater member of the cod family back into British waters but these have yet to come to fruition. The Derwent is a river in Yorkshire in the north of England. ... The River Ouse in York The River Ouse (pronounced ooze) in North Yorkshire, England flows through York and Selby. ...

In the 1920s, Minnesota druggist Theodore H. Rowell and his father Joseph Rowell, a commercial fisherman on Lake of the Woods, were using the burbot as feed for the foxes Joe’s blue fox farm. They discovered that the burbot contained something that improved the quality of the fox’s furs; this was confirmed by the fur buyers who commented that these furs were superior to other furs they were seeing. Ted felt it was something in the burbot, so he extracted some oil and sent it away to be assayed. The result of the assay was that the liver of the burbot is 3-4 times more potent in vitamin D, and 4 – 10 times more potent in vitamin A than “good grades” of cod liver oil. The vitamin content varies in Burbot from lake to lake, where their diet may have some variation. Additionally, the burbot liver makes up approximately 10% of the fish's total body weight, and their liver is 6x larger than freshwater fish of comparable size. Ted also found in his research that the oil is lower in viscosity, and more rapidly digested and assimilated than most other fish liver oils. Ted went on to found the Burbot Liver Products Company which later became Rowell Laboratories, Inc. of Baudette, Minnesota, and is today a subsidary of Solvay Pharmaceuticals of Brussels Belgium. Theodore H. Rowell, Sr. ... Lake of the Woods from space, May 1998 Lake of the Woods. ... Baudette is a city in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. ... Solvay may refer to the Solvay process Ernest Solvay, its inventor Solvay, [1] - a Belgian pharmaceuticals, chemicals and plastics company Solvay Conference the Solvay Business School Solvay, New York This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

Burbot are fair to good eating (recommended use is boiling), but rarely used as food, as most fishermen are put off by their "eely" appearance. The town of Walker, Minnesota holds an International Eelpout Festival every winter on Leech Lake. In Finland, its roe is sold as caviar. Walker is a city located in Cass County, Minnesota. ... Leech Lake is a lake located in north central Minnesota, United States. ... A can of black Iranian caviar Russian salmon caviar on buttered bread Caviar is the processed salted roe of various species of fish, most notably sturgeon. ...

The genus and species name "lota" comes from "la lotte," the old French word for "codfish." The Inuktitut word for burbot was used to name the extinct species Tiktaalik. Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories corresponding roughly to the northern half of modern France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300 A.D. It was known at the time as the langue doïl to distinguish it from the langue... Species Gadus morhua Gadus macrocephalus Gadus ogac Cod is the common name for the genus Gadus of fishes, belonging to the family Gadidae, and is also used in the common name of a variety of other fishes. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Binomial name Tiktaalik roseae Daeschler, Shubin & Jenkins, 2006 Tiktaalik (IPA pronunciation: ) is a genus of extinct sarcopterygian (lobe-finned) fishes from the late Devonian period, with many features akin to those of tetrapods (four-legged animals). ...

References

• Lota lota (TSN 164725). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 24 January 2006.
• "Lota lota". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. 10 2005 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2005.
• Experts to discuss reintroduction of Burbot to UK, Matt Clarke, Practical Fishkeeping magazine
• BBC Radio Programme - 13th March 2005
• Lota Lota
• "Two Men... and A Fish: The Story of Rowell Laboratories by Jenny Morman, copyright 1986". 
• "Vitamins from Our Own Fish". Scientific American April 1939: 215. 

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