Merluccius

Genus of fishes

Merluccius

Merluccius productus
Scientific classification
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]

## Species[edit]

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)

## References[edit]

1. ^ 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.
2. ^ "Merluccius merluccius, European hake : fisheries". www.fishbase.se.
3. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Merluccius in FishBase. April 2018 version.
4. ^ 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.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q733110
* Wikispecies: Merluccius
* ADW: Merluccius
* AFD: Merluccius
* BOLD: 5818
* EPPO: 1MRLUG
* Fossilworks: 35725
* GBIF: 2415629
* iNaturalist: 82353
* IRMNG: 1200002
* ITIS: 164790
* NBN: NHMSYS0021053336
* NCBI: 8062
* NZOR: 49407c32-4184-4c13-b483-67b6a20ac57f
* WoRMS: 125762

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