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Genus of fishes
Merluccius
Merluccius productus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Gadiformes
Family:
Merlucciidae
Subfamily:
Merlucciinae
Genus:
Merluccius
Rafinesque , 1810
Type species
Merluccius smiridus Rafinesque, 1810
Distribution of American Merluccius spp .
Synonyms
[1]
Epicopus
Günther , 1860
Homalopomus
Girard , 1856
Huttonichthys
Whitley , 1937
Hydronus Minding, 1832
Merlangus Rafinesque, 1810
Merlucius
Gronow , 1854
Merlus
Guichenot , 1848
Onus Rafinesque, 1810
Polydatus
Gistel , 1848
Stomodon
Mitchill , 1814
Trachinoides
Borodin , 1934
Merluccius is a
genus of
merluccid hakes from the
Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans , where mainly found relatively deep.
The generic name is derived from French mer ("sea") and
Latin lucius , "
pike ."
[2]
The 14 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)
[4]
Merluccius bilinearis (
Mitchill , 1814) (silver hake)
Merluccius capensis
Castelnau , 1861 (shallow-water Cape hake)
Merluccius gayi (
Guichenot , 1848)
M. g. gayi (
Guichenot , 1848) (South Pacific hake)
M. g. peruanus
Ginsburg , 1954 (Peruvian hake)
Merluccius hernandezi
C. P. Mathews , 1985 (Cortez hake)
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)
^ William Eschmeyer, ed. (2018).
"SEARCH RESULTS FROM THE Catalog of Fishes Genera that contain: Merluccius" . Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 April 2018 .
^
"Merluccius merluccius, European hake : fisheries" . www.fishbase.se .
^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018).
Species of Merluccius in
FishBase . April 2018 version.
^ Deli Antoni, M.Y., Delpiani, S.M., Stewart, A.L., González-Castro, M. & Díaz De Astarloa, J.M. (2015): Merluccius tasmanicus Matallanas & Lloris 2006 is a junior synonym of M. australis (Hutton 1872) (Gadiformes: Merluciidae) based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa, 3956 (1): 29–55.