Merluccius
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 , 1860Homalopomus Girard , 1856Huttonichthys Whitley , 1937Hydronus Minding, 1832 Merlangus Rafinesque, 1810 Merlucius Gronow , 1854Merlus Guichenot , 1848Onus Rafinesque, 1810 Polydatus Gistel , 1848Stomodon Mitchill , 1814Trachinoides Borodin , 1934
Merluccius 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
The 14 recognized species in this genus are:[ 3]
Merluccius albidus (Mitchill , 1818) (offshore silver hake)Merluccius angustimanus Garman , 1899Merluccius australis (F. W. Hutton , 1872) (southern hake) [ 4] Merluccius bilinearis (Mitchill , 1814) (silver hake)Merluccius capensis Castelnau , 1861Merluccius gayi (Guichenot , 1848)
M. g. gayi (Guichenot , 1848) (South Pacific hake)M. g. peruanus Ginsburg , 1954Merluccius hernandezi C. P. Mathews , 1985Merluccius hubbsi Marini , 1933Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus , 1758) (European hake)Merluccius paradoxus Franca , 1960Merluccius patagonicus Lloris & Matallanas , 2003Merluccius polli Cadenat , 1950Merluccius productus (Ayres , 1855) (North Pacific hake)Merluccius senegalensis Cadenat , 1950
References
^ 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 ; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Species in genus Month-February " . FishBase ^ 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.
