Merluccius

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
	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)

^ 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.

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