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Merluccius merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus 1758

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Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus 1758) —European hake

Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Merluccius merluccius, L. by Gruvel (1931: 80); subsequently recorded as Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus 1758) by George et al. (1964: 14); as Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus 1758) by Mouneimné (1977: 62); as Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus 1758) by Mouneimné (2002: 92–93); recently by Aguillar et al. (2018: 81). Material in collection: AUBM and USNM.

Distribution. Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: Norway and Iceland south to Mauritania.

Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 1 October 2015); Med. (VU: A2bd, 13 November 2007). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, NIS, unknown. Occurrence: Rare. Low priority for conservation action.

Notes

Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/6E2F87D6FFACFFFFFF2EFA51FB72FDF4

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3983887 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/9216FFAEFF82FFD1FFB9FFD4FFF1FB17 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/C3E5AF7F-1C84-450E-B228-BD78D0084071 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/6E2F87D6FFACFFFFFF2EFA51FB72FDF4 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/167366910 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/21109/taxon/6E2F87D6FFACFFFFFF2EFA51FB72FDF4.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
LC
Event date
2007-11-13
Family
Merlucciidae
Genus
Merluccius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Gadiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
merluccius (Linnaeus
Species
merluccius
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2007-11-13/2015-10-01
Taxonomic concept label
Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Bariche & Fricke, 2020

References

  • Gruvel, A. (1931) Les Etats de Syrie. Richesses marines et fluviales. Exploitation actuelle-Avenir. Societe d'Editions Geographiques, Maritimes et Coloniale, 453 pp.
  • George, C. J., Athanassiou, V. A. & Boulos, I. (1964) The fishes of the coastal waters of Lebanon. Miscellaneous Papers in the Natural Sciences. The American University of Beirut, 4, 1 - 24.
  • Mouneimne, N. (1977) Liste des poissons de la cote du Liban (Mediterranee orientale). Cybium, 3 (1), 37 - 66.
  • Mouneimne, N. (2002) Poissons marins du Liban et de la Mediterranee orientale. INCAM-EU / CNRS Lebanon, Beyrouth, 271 pp.