Gadiformes

ORDER GADIFORMES

Family Macrouridae

Gadomus longifilis (Goode & Bean, 1885) — Treadfin grenadier * Trachyrincus scabrus (Rafinesque, 1810) — Roughsnout grenadier Hymenocephalus italicus Giglioli, 1884 — Glasshead grenadier Coelorinchus caelorinchus (Risso, 1810) — Hollow nosed rattail Occasional catches mainly between 300–650 m depth in various “Demersales” surveys

Coelorinchus labiatus (Koelher, 1896) — Spearsnouted grenadier Reported from Galicia as C. vaillanti by Arté (1952).

Coryphaenoides rupestris Gunnerus, 1765 — Roundhead rat-tail

Cetonurus globiceps (Vaillant, 1884) — Globehead grenadier

* Malacocephalus laevi s (Lowe, 1843) — Rough rat-tail

* Nezumia aequalis (Günther, 1878) — Common Atlantic grenadier

Nezumia sclerorhynchus (Valenciennes, 1838) — Roughtip grenadier

Family Moridae

Antimora rostrata (Günther, 1878) — Blue antimora

Gadella maraldi (Risso, 1810) — Gadella

Recorded for Galicia based on one specimen of 11 cm TL caught to 570 m depth during the survey “Demersales 09”

Halargyreus johnsonii Günther, 1862 — Slender codling

Physiculus dalwigki Kaup, 1858 — Black codling

Not mentioned for Galicia by Cohen in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded from the Galicia Bank (Bañón et al., 2002) (Figure 4).

Mora moro (Risso, 1810) — Common mora

* Lepidion eques (Günther, 1887) — North Atlantic codling

Family Melanonidae

Melanonus zugmayeri Norman, 1930 — Arrowtail

Family Gadidae

* Raniceps raninus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Tadpole fish * Trisopterus luscus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Bib

* Trisopterus minutus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Poor cod Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 — Cod

* Micromesistius poutassou (Risso, 1827) — Blue whiting * Gadiculus argenteus argenteus Guichenot, 1850 — Silvery pout * Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Whiting * Pollachius pollachius (Linnaeus, 1758) — Pollack

Family Lotidae

Gaidropsarus macrophthalmus (Günther, 1867) — Big-eyed rockling

Gaidropsarus granti (Regan, 1903) — Azores rockling

Recorded from the Galicia Bank (Bañón et al., 2002). Recorded again in 2009 in the same area (Figure 5), confirming its presence. This species has never been caught in the continental shelf of the Atlantic area and their distribution seems to be restricted to islands and seamounts.

Gaidropsarus guttatus (Collet, 1890) — No common name

* Gaidropsarus vulgaris (Cloquet, 1824) — 3-bearded rockling

* Gaidropsarus mediterraneus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Shore rockling

* Ciliata mustela (Linnaeus, 1758) — 5-bearded rockling

Molva molva (Linnaeus, 1758) — Ling

Molva macrophtalma (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common ling

Previously reported as M. dypterigia (Solórzano et al., 1988)

Family Phycidae

Phycis phycis (Linnaeus, 1766) — Forkbeard * Phycis blennoides (Brünnich, 1768) — Greater forkbeard

Family Merluccidae

*Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758) — European hake