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Merluccius paradoxus Franca, 1960

To FishBase images (<i>Merluccius paradoxus</i>, by Bañón Díaz, R.)
To FishBase images (Merluccius paradoxus, by Bañón Díaz, R.)

217745  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217745)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Osteichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Actinopterygii (Gigaclass)
  8. Actinopteri (Superclass)
  9. Teleostei (Class)
  10. Gadiformes (Order)
  11. Merlucciidae (Family)
  12. Merlucciinae (Subfamily)
  13. Merluccius (Genus)
  14. Merluccius paradoxus (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Franca, P. da. (1960). Nova contribuição para o conhecimento do género Merluccius no Atlântico oriental ao sul do Equador. <em>Memórias da Junta de Investigações Científicas do Ultramar.</em> 2a. sér. Lisboa No. 18: 57-101. [details]   
Description Feeds on fishes, mysids, euphausiids and squids. The young feed mainly on euphausiids, but the diet becomes polyphagous...  
Description Feeds on fishes, mysids, euphausiids and squids. The young feed mainly on euphausiids, but the diet becomes polyphagous with growth. Cannibalism has been observed in larger individuals (Ref. 9583). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Merluccius paradoxus Franca, 1960. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217745 on 2024-05-05
Date
action
by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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original description Franca, P. da. (1960). Nova contribuição para o conhecimento do género Merluccius no Atlântico oriental ao sul do Equador. <em>Memórias da Junta de Investigações Científicas do Ultramar.</em> 2a. sér. Lisboa No. 18: 57-101. [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

additional source Lloris, D.; Matallanas, J.; Oliver P. (2005). Hakes of the world (Family Merlucciidae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of hake species known to date. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 2. Rome, FAO. 57p. 12 colour plates. [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Feeds on fishes, mysids, euphausiids and squids. The young feed mainly on euphausiids, but the diet becomes polyphagous with growth. Cannibalism has been observed in larger individuals (Ref. 9583). [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
Afrikaans stokvisdiepwater stokvis  [details]
Danish kulmule  [details]
Dutch diepwaterheek  [details]
English hakedeepwater hakedeep-water Cape hake  [details]
French merlu profondmerlu du large du Cap  [details]
German Tiefenwasser-KapseechechtSeehecht  [details]
Polish morszczuk atlantycki  [details]
Portuguese pescada do sudoeste africanopescadamarmota  [details]
Spanish merluza de cantilmerluza de altura del Cabo  [details]
To Barcode of Life (63 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Merluccius capensis paradoxus Franca, 1960)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) 
To FAO Species fact sheets 
To FishBase 
To FishBase (from synonym Merluccius merluccius paradoxus Franca, 1960)
To FishBase (from synonym Merluccius capensis paradoxus Franca, 1960)
To FishBase images (Merluccius paradoxus, by Bañón Díaz, R.) 
To GenBank (701 nucleotides; 45 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
To FishBase images (<i>Merluccius paradoxus</i>, by Bañón Díaz, R.)
To FishBase images (Merluccius paradoxus, by Bañón Díaz, R.)
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