Merluccius productus
Description
Merluccius productus (Ayres, 1855).
Pacific Hake. To 91.4 cm (36 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Attu Island, Aleutian Islands (one record), eastern Bering Sea (54°43’N, 165°42’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California and Gulf of California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Colombia (Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990), and Islas Revillagigedo (Robertson and Allen 2008). Reported from continental slope of Bering Sea (Fedorov 1973), but vouchers are needed to confirm continued existence there (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Oceanic and neritic pelagic (Inada in Cohen et al. 1990); depth: 12–1,437 m (39–4,713 ft) (min.: M.L., unpubl. data; max.: DFO). We also note that there is a much deeper record of 1,857 m (6,091 ft) (DFO) from a bottom trawl haul. Given that this species may occur well off the bottom, this latter catch may have occurred as the trawl was deployed or retrieved. We consider Merluccius angustimanus Garman, 1899 to be a synonym (Silva-Segundo et al. 2011).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Merlucciidae
- Genus
- Merluccius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Gadiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ayres
- Species
- productus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Merluccius productus (Ayres, 1855) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Maslenikov, K. P., Orr, J. W. & Stevenson, D. W. (2013) Range extensions and significant distributional records for eighty-two species of fishes in Alaskan marine waters. Northwestern Naturalist, 94, 1 - 21. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 12 - 23.1
- Cohen, D. M., Inada, T., Iwamoto, T. & Scialabba, N. (1990) FAO Species Catalogue. Gadiform Fishes of the World. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125, Volume 10. FAO, Rome.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
- Fedorov, V. V. (1973) Ichthyofauna of the continental slope of the Bering Sea and some aspects of its origin and development. Izvestija TINRO, 87, 3 - 41. [Fisheries Marine Service Translation Series No. 3345. Department of the Environment, Fisheries and Marine Service, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, B. C., Canada.]
- Silva-Segundo, C. A., Brito-Chavarria, M., Balart, E. F., de los A. Barriga-Sosa, I., Rojas-Esquivel, R., Roldan, M. I., Murugan, G. & Garcia-De Leon, F. J. (2011) Clarifying the taxonomic status of Merluccius spp. in the northeastern Pacific: a combined morphological and molecular approach. Reviews of Fish Biology and Fisheries, 21, 259 - 282. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 11160 - 010 - 9166 - 6