Editing Gadus (section)

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = ''Gadus''
| image = Atlantic cod.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Gadus morhua]]'', Atlantic cod
| taxon = Gadus
| authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]&nbsp;<ref>{{cite web |author=WoRMS |year=2011 |title=''Gadus'' |editor=Nicolas Bailly |work=[[FishBase]] |publisher=[[World Register of Marine Species]] |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125732 |access-date=July 5, 2011}}</ref>
| type_species = ''Gadus morhua''
| type_species_authority = Linnaeus 1758
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
*''[[Gadus macrocephalus]]''
*''[[Gadus morhua]]''
*''[[Gadus chalcogrammus]]''
*''([[Gadus ogac]]'' <small>– invalid, synonym to ''G. macrocephalus''<ref name="carr-1999">{{Cite journal | last1 = Carr | first1 = S. M. | last2 = Kivlichan | first2 = D. S. | last3 = Pepin | first3 = P. | last4 = Crutcher | first4 = D. C. | title = Molecular systematics of gadid fishes: Implications for the biogeographic origins of Pacific species | doi = 10.1139/z98-194 | journal = Canadian Journal of Zoology | volume = 77 | pages = 19–26 | year = 1999 | issue = 1 | bibcode = 1999CaJZ...77...19C }}</ref><ref name="Gadus macrocephalus">Catalogue of Life: ''[https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/6JV2L Gadus macrocephalus]''.</ref></small>)
| synonyms = *''Cephus'' <small>[[William Swainson|Swainson]], 1838</small>
*''Cerdo'' <small>[[Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel|Gistel]], 1848</small>
*''Leptogadus'' <small>[[Theodore Gill|Gill]], 1863</small>
*''Morhua'' <small>[[John Fleming (naturalist)|Fleming]], 1828</small>
*''Morua'' <small>[[Antoine Risso|Risso]], 1827</small>
}}

'''''Gadus''''' is a genus of [[demersal fish]] in the family [[Gadidae]], commonly known as [[cod]], although there are additional cod species in other [[genus|genera]]. The best known member of the genus is the [[Atlantic cod]].