Editing Merlucciidae

{{Short description|Family of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image =Merluccius_bilinearis.jpg
| image_caption = [[Silver hake]], ''Merluccius bilinearis''
| taxon = Merlucciidae
| authority = [[Theodore Gill|T. N. Gill]], 1884
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
''[[Lyconodes]]''<br />
''[[Lyconus]]''<br />
''[[Macruronus]]''<br />
''[[Merluccius]]''<br />
''[[Steindachneria]]''
}}

The '''merlucciidae''', commonly called '''merluccid [[hake]]s''' {{IPAc-en|m|@r|'|l|u:|ch|I|d}},<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wH3MBQAAQBAJ&dq=%22merluccid+hakes%22&pg=PA633|title=Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic, Two Volume Set|first=William J.|last=Richards|date=August 8, 2005|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9780203500217 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfXzBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22merluccid+hakes%22&pg=PA324|title=Hakes: Biology and Exploitation|first=Hugo|last=Arancibia|date=September 28, 2015|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9781118568415 |via=Google Books}}</ref> are a [[Family (biology)|family]] of [[Gadiformes|cod-like fish]], including most [[hake]]s.<ref name = "Hakes">{{cite book | last = Lloris | first = Domingo | title = Hakes of the world (family Merlucciidae) : an annotated and illustrated catalogue of hake species known to date | publisher = Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | location = Rome | year = 2005 | isbn = 92-5-104984-X | url = https://www.fao.org/4/y4876e/y4876e00.htm }}</ref>
They are native to cold water in the [[Atlantic]] and [[Pacific]] oceans, and typically are found at depths greater than {{convert|50|m|ft|abbr=on}} in subtropical, temperate, sub-[[Arctic]] or sub-[[Antarctic]] regions.

The best known species are in the genera ''Macruronus'' and ''Merluccius''. These predatory fish are up to {{convert|1.55|m|abbr=on}} in length, though most only reach about half that length, inhabiting the waters of the [[continental shelf]] and upper [[continental slope]], where they feed on small fish such as [[lanternfish]]es. Several species are important commercial fish, for example the [[blue grenadier]] (''Macruronus novaezelandiae'') that is fished in the southwest Pacific and the [[North Pacific hake]] (''Merluccius productus'') that is fished off western North America.

The taxonomy of the Merluccidae is not settled, with some authorities raising two or three subfamilies, the Merluccinae,  Macruroninae,<ref name = Filho>{{cite journal | author1 = Alfredo Carvalho-Filho | author2 = Guy Marcovaldi | author3 = Claudio L.S. Sampaio | author4 = M. Isabel G. Paiva | year = 2011 | title = First report of ''Macruronus novaezelandiae'' (Gadiformes, Merluccidae, Macruroninae) from Atlantic tropical waters | url = https://www.tamar.org.br/publicacoes_html/pdf/2011/2011_First_report_of_Macruronus_novaezelandiae.pdf | journal = Marine Biodiversity Records | volume =  4 | page = e49 | doi = 10.1017/S1755267211000431 }}</ref> and Steindachneriinae, while other authorities raise the latter two into their own families, the  Macruronidae  and the [[monotypy|monotypic]] Steindachneriidae.<ref name = Endo>{{cite journal | author = Hiromitsu Endo | year = 2002 | title = Phylogeny of the Order Gadiformes (Teleostei, Paracanthopterygii) | journal = Memoirs of the Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences Hokkaido University | volume = 49 | issue = 2 | url = https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/22016/1/49%282%29_P75-149.pdf | access-date = 2018-04-06 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170830001519/https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/22016/1/49(2)_P75-149.pdf | archive-date = 2017-08-30 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

This would mean the genera would be arranged as:<ref name  = Endo/>

* Steindachneriidae
** ''Steindachneria''
* Macruronidae
** ''Lyconodes''
** ''Lyconus''
** ''Macruronus''
* Merlucciidae ''[[sensu stricto|ss]]''
** ''Merluccius''

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* {{FishBase family | family = Merlucciidae | month = June| year = 2012}}

==External links==
*[http://www.terracuranda.org/fisheries/statistics/index.html Terra Curanda Fishery Statistics]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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[[Category:Marine fish families]]
[[Category:Euteleostei families]]


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