Merluccius
Genus of fishes
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Merluccius is a genus of merluccid hakes from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, where mainly found relatively deep.
| Merluccius | |
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| Merluccius productus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gadiformes |
| Family: | Merlucciidae |
| Genus: | Merluccius Rafinesque, 1810 |
| Type species | |
| Merluccius smiridus Rafinesque, 1810 | |
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| Distribution of American Merluccius spp. | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
The generic name is derived from French mer ("sea") and Latin lucius, "pike."[2]
Species
The 13 recognized species in this genus are:[3]
- Merluccius albidus (Mitchill, 1818) (offshore silver hake)
- Merluccius angustimanus Garman, 1899 (Panama hake)
- Merluccius australis (F. W. Hutton, 1872) (southern hake)
- Merluccius bilinearis (Mitchill, 1814) (silver hake)
- Merluccius capensis Castelnau, 1861 (shallow-water Cape hake)
- Merluccius gayi (Guichenot, 1848)
- Merluccius hubbsi Marini, 1933 (Argentine hake)
- Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758) (European hake)
- Merluccius paradoxus Franca, 1960 (deep-water cape hake)
- Merluccius patagonicus Lloris & Matallanas, 2003 (Patagonian hake)
- Merluccius polli Cadenat, 1950 (Benguela hake)
- Merluccius productus (Ayres, 1855) (North Pacific hake)
- Merluccius senegalensis Cadenat, 1950 (Senegalese hake)
- Synonyms
- Merluccius hernandezi C. P. Mathews, 1985 (Cortez hake); valid as M. productus
- Merluccius tasmanicus Matallanas & Lloris, 2006; valid as M. australis[4]
