[Chinook cultus ‘of little worth,’ G. B. Goode.] A chiroid fish (Ophiodon elongatus), an important article of food on the Pacific coast of North America.
1884. Rep. U. S. Fishery Commission (1886), 267.
1888. G. B. Goode, Amer. Fishes, 270. The Cultus Cod, Ophiodon elongatus, is universally called ‘Cod-fish,’ where the true cod is unknown. About Puget Sound the English call it ‘Ling.’
