Merluccius is a genus of merluccid hakes from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, where mainly found relatively deep.
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Scientific classification  |
| Domain: |
Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Chordata |
| Class: |
Actinopterygii |
| Order: |
Gadiformes |
| Family: |
Merlucciidae |
| Subfamily: |
Merlucciinae |
| Genus: |
Merluccius
Rafinesque, 1810 |
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| Type species |
Merluccius smiridus
Rafinesque, 1810 |
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| 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
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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)
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.
