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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Merlucciidae

Hakes

WoRMS 125473ITIS 164789GBIF 3703key worms:125473
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164789 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Javiera Constanzo · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Macruronus magellanicus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Merlucciidae
Photo · Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Merlucciidae, commonly called merluccid hakes, are a family of cod-like fish, containing two genera. They are the only member of the suborder Merlucciodei.W CalCOFI holds 15,139 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

15,139
observations
61,556
records
1
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 1 obs · 1 events · 1985 · larva
    name used: Merlucciidae Hakes · code 900

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125473%22