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Merluccidae

Description

Family Merluccidae

Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758)—European hake

One specimen, a female of 61 cm TL was caught at a depth of 795 m. Habitat and Distribution: demersal to benthopelagic over sandy and muddy bottoms at depth range 30–1,075 m, usually 50– 370 m. Eastern Atlantic, from Norway and Iceland to Mauritania and in the Mediterranean Sea. Vulnerability: DD (IUCN), HV (FishBase).

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Published as part of Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), pp. 293-333 in Zootaxa 4067 (3) on page 317, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256670

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Biodiversity

Family
Merluccidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Gadiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
family