Merluccius

Merluccius
Merluccius productus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gadiformes
Family:	Merlucciidae
Genus:	Merluccius Rafinesque, 1810
Type species
Merluccius smiridus Rafinesque, 1810
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

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)
  • M. g. gayi (Guichenot, 1848) (South Pacific hake)
  • M. g. peruanus Ginsburg, 1954 (Peruvian 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)

Synonyms

• Merluccius hernandezi C. P. Mathews, 1985 (Cortez hake); valid as M. productus
• Merluccius tasmanicus Matallanas & Lloris, 2006; valid as M. australis^[4]

References

1. 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.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Merluccius merluccius". FishBase.
3. 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.
4. 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.