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| Kinds | - Merluccius albidus, Offshore Hake
- Merluccius angustimanus, Panama Hake
- Merluccius australis, Southern Hake
- Merluccius bilinearis, Silver Hake
- Merluccius capensis, Shallow-water Cape Hake
- Merluccius gayi, South-pacific hake
- Merluccius gayi_gayi, South Pacific Hake
- Merluccius gayi_peruanus, Peruvian Hake
- Merluccius hernandezi
- Merluccius hubbsi, Argentine Hake
- Merluccius merluccius, European Hake
- Merluccius paradoxus, Deep-water Cape Hake
- Merluccius patagonicus
- Merluccius polli, Benguela Hake
- Merluccius productus, North Pacific Hake
- Merluccius senegalensis, Senegalese Hake
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Main identification features
- elongate, tapering.large head and eye
- 2ds, 2nd dorsal fin - long base, + notch
- lower jaw projects
- large pointed teeth
- pelvics large, "normal"
MERLUCCIUS
MERLUCCID HAKES
Elongate, compressed, tapering to a narrow tail base; head relatively large and flattened, with a V shape crest on top; large eyes and mouth, lower jaw slightly projecting; jaw teeth long, strong and pointed; fins without spines; 2 separate dorsal fins, the 1st shorter and higher, the 2nd with a long base and partly divided by a notch; well developed, nonfilamentous pelvic fins, situated before the pectorals; tail fin short, slightly forked; scales small.
A warm temperate to tropical genus with 13 species, found in the Atlantic, eastern Pacific, southwestern Indian Ocean and southwestern Pacific. Two species and one subspecies are endemic to the eastern Pacific, one north temperate species enters the northern part of our region and the other occurs throughout our region.
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- Ginsburg, I., 1954., Whitings on the coasts of the American continent., Fishery Bulletin, 56:187-208.
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- Van der Heiden , A. M. and Findley, L. T., 1988., Lista de los peces marinos del sur de Sinaloa, México., Anales del Centro de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia de la Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico, 15:209-224.
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