Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Paracanthopterygii
Series: Zeiogadaria
Subseries: Gadariae
Ordo: Gadiformes
Familia: Merlucciidae
Genera: Lyconodes - Lyconus - Macruronus - Merluccius - Steindachneria - †Macrurulus - †Rhinocephalus
Name
Merlucciidae Rafinesque, 1815
Type genus: Merluccius Rafinesque, 1810
Notes
Subfamiliae rank (Merlucciinae, Macruroninae, Steindachneriinae) disputed.
References
Primary references
Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Palerme: L'Imprimerie de Jean Barravecchia. 224 pp. BHL Reference page.
References
Crous, M. & Roldán, M.I. 2015: Characterization of mitochondrial control region in Merlucciidae: sequence variation and molecular phylogeny. Zootaxa 3972(3): 393–406. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.3.5 Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Nelson, J.S. 2006. Fishes of the World, fourth edition. John Wiley, Hoboken, 624 pp. ISBN 0-471-25031-7. ISBN 978-0-471-25031-9. Reference page.
Links
Merlucciidae – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Vernacular names
日本語: メルルーサ科
polski: morszczukowate
The Merlucciidae, commonly called merluccid hakes /mərˈluːtʃɪd/,[1][2] are a family of cod-like fish, including most hakes.[3] They are native to cold water in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and typically are found at depths greater than 50 m (160 ft) in subtropical, temperate, sub-Arctic or sub-Antarctic regions.
The best known species are in the genera Macruronus and Merluccius. These predatory fish are up to 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) in length, though most only reach about half that length, inhabiting the waters of the continental shelf and upper continental slope, where they feed on small fish such as lanternfishes. Several species are important commercial fish, for example the blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae) that is fished in the southwest Pacific and the North Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) that is fished off western North America.
The taxonomy of the Merluccidae is not settled, with some authorities raising two or three subfamilies, the Merluccinae, Macruroninae,[4] and Steindachneriinae, while other authorities raise the latter two into their own families, the Macruronidae and the monotypic Steindachneriidae.[5]
This would mean the genera would be arranged as:[5]
Steindachneriidae
Steindachneria
Macruronidae
Lyconodes
Lyconus
Macruronus
Merlucciidae ss
Merluccius
References
Richards, William J. (August 8, 2005). Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic, Two Volume Set. CRC Press. ISBN 9780203500217 – via Google Books.
Arancibia, Hugo (September 28, 2015). Hakes: Biology and Exploitation. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118568415 – via Google Books.
Lloris, Domingo (2005). Hakes of the world (family Merlucciidae) : an annotated and illustrated catalogue of hake species known to date. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 92-5-104984-X.
Alfredo Carvalho-Filho; Guy Marcovaldi; Claudio L.S. Sampaio; M. Isabel G. Paiva (2011). "First report of Macruronus novaezelandiae (Gadiformes, Merluccidae, Macruroninae) from Atlantic tropical waters" (PDF). Marine Biodiversity Records. 4: e49. doi:10.1017/S1755267211000431.
Hiromitsu Endo (2002). "Phylogeny of the Order Gadiformes (Teleostei, Paracanthopterygii)" (PDF). Memoirs of the Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences Hokkaido University. 49 (2). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-30. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Merlucciidae". FishBase. June 2012 version
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