name: Whiting

flavor_db_name_variants: whiting

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Whiting

id: 504

name_scientific: Merlangius merlangus

description: Merlangius merlangus, commonly known as whiting, is an important food fish in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean and the northern Mediterranean, western Baltic, and Black Seas. In English-speaking countries outside the whiting's natural range, the name has been applied to various other species of fish. Merlangius merlangus has three dorsal fins with a total of 30 to 40 soft rays and two anal fins with 30 to 35 soft rays. The body is long and the head small and a chin barbel, if present, is very small. This fish can reach a maximum length of about 70 cm (28 inches). The colour may be yellowish-brown, greenish or dark blue, the flanks yellowish grey or white and the belly silvery. There is a distinctive black blotch near the base of each pectoral fin.

itis_id: 164701

wikipedia_id: Merlangius_merlangus

picture_file_name: 515.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 123866

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:32:25.000Z

legacy_id: 542

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Fishes

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:46.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:26.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 8058

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00504