Merlucciidae
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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Merlucciids
| image = Silverhk.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Gadiformes
| familia = Merlucciidae
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
Lyconodes
Lyconus
Macruronus
Merluccius
Steindachneria
See text for species.
}}
Merlucciidae is a family of cod-like fishes, including most hakes.
They are native to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, being common in southern waters off Tasmaia and New Zealand.
They are large predatory fishes inhabiting the waters of the continental shelf and upper continental slope, where they feed on small fishes such as lanternfishes. Several species are important commerical fishes, notably the blue grenadier, Macruronus novaezelandiae, which grows u to 130 cm long, and is fished in subantarctic waters of the southwest Pacific.
Species
There are 23 species in five genera:
- Genus Lyconodes
- Lyconodes argenteus (Goode & Bean, 1896).
- Genus Lyconus
- Lyconus brachycolus Holt & Byrne, 1906.
- Lyconus pinnatus Günther, 1887.
- Genus Macruronus
- Cape grenadier, Macruronus capensis Davies, 1950.
- Macruronus maderensis Maul, 1951.
- Patagonian grenadier, Macruronus magellanicus Lönnberg, 1907.
- Blue grenadier, Macruronus novaezelandiae (Hector, 1871).Image:Macruronus novaezelandiae.jpg
- Genus Merluccius
- Offshore hake, Merluccius albidus (Mitchill, 1818).
- Panama hake, Merluccius angustimanus Garman, 1899.
- Southern hake, Merluccius australis (Hutton, 1872).
- Silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis (Mitchill, 1814).
- Shallow-water Cape hake, Merluccius capensis (Davies, 1950).
- South Pacific hake, Merluccius gayi gayi (Guichenot, 1848).
- Peruvian hake, Merluccius gayi peruanus Ginsburg, 1954.
- Cortez hake, Merluccius hernandezi Mathews, 1985.
- Argentine hake, Merluccius hubbsi Marini, 1933.
- European hake, Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758).
- Deep-water Cape hake, Merluccius paradoxus Franca, 1960.
- Merluccius patagonicus Lloris & Matallanas, 2003.
- Benguela hake, Merluccius polli Cadenat, 1950.
- North Pacific hake, Merluccius productus (Ayres, 1855).
- Senegalese hake, Merluccius senegalensis Cadenat, 1950.
Image:Steindachneria argentea.jpg
- Genus Steindachneria
- Luminous hake, Steindachneria argentea Goode & Bean, 1896.