Burbot
Scientific name: Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Overview
The burbot, also known as bubbot, mariah, loche, cusk, freshwater cod, freshwater ling, freshwater cusk, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, or eelpout, is a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It is the only member of the genus Lota, and is the only freshwater species of the order Gadiformes. The species is closely related to marine fish such as the common ling and cusk, all of which belong to the family Lotidae (rocklings).
From the Wikipedia article “Burbot”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Where it lives
Common names
Also known in English as Eel-Pout.
Names in other languages (10)
- Arabic
- بربوط
- Chinese
- 江鱈
- French
- lote, lotte, lotte de rivière
- German
- Aalraupe, Aalrutte, Quappaal, Quappe, Rufolken, Rufunkel
- Indonesian
- Burbot
- Japanese
- カワメンタイ
- Persian
- ماهی ریشدار
- Russian
- налим, Налим речной
- Spanish
- lota
- Turkish
- gelincik balığı, Tatlı su gelinciği
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: FishBase.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q144700, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Burbot”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
- Range map — Andrew69., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026