| Merluccius | |
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| Merluccius productus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gadiformes |
| Family: | Merlucciidae |
| Genus: | Merluccius Rafinesque, 1810 |
| Type species | |
| Merluccius smiridus Rafinesque, 1810
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| Distribution of American Merluccius spp. | |
| Synonyms1 | |
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
The 13 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)
- Merluccius bilinearis (Mitchill, 1814) (silver hake)
- Merluccius capensis Castelnau, 1861 (shallow-water Cape hake)
- Merluccius gayi (Guichenot, 1848)
- 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)
- Synonyms
- Merluccius hernandezi C. P. Mathews, 1985 (Cortez hake); valid as M. productus
- Merluccius tasmanicus Matallanas & Lloris, 2006; valid as M. australis4
References
References
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Merlucciidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Merluccius merluccius". FishBase.
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Merluccius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
- 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.