''Merluccius'' is a
genus
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of
merluccid hakes from the
Atlantic
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and
Pacific Ocean
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s, where mainly found relatively deep.
The generic name is derived from French ''mer'' ("sea") and
Latin
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''lucius'', "
pike."
Species
The 14 recognized species in this genus are:
* ''
Merluccius albidus''
( Mitchill, 1818) (offshore silver hake)
* ''
Merluccius angustimanus''
Garman, 1899 (Panama hake)
* ''
Merluccius australis''
( F. W. Hutton, 1872) (southern 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.'']
* ''
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
Marini (last name) is a surname of Roman/Italian Catholic origin; closely associated with the last names: Marino and Mariani with the three patronymic forms emerging from the same region at approximately the same time. Migrations branching from Ita ...
, 1933 (Argentine hake)
* ''
Merluccius merluccius''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 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
Merlucciidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
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