Merluccius productus
Pacific hake or whiting
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164792 via WoRMS external link
The North Pacific hake, Pacific hake, Pacific whiting, or jack salmon is a ray-finned fish in the genus Merluccius, found in the northeast Pacific Ocean from northern Vancouver Island to the northern part of the Gulf of California. It is a silver-gray fish with black speckling, growing to a length of 90 cm (3 ft).W CalCOFI holds 16,317 observations of it in 3 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as egg and larva.R
- 16,317
- observations
- 106,007
- records
- 58,562
- sampling events
- 1951–2023
- years
- 3
- datasets
- egg · larva
- life stages
- 91 cm
- max length
Observed in 3 datasetsi
One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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name used: Merluccius productus · code
merluccius_productus -
name used: Merluccius productus Pacific hake or whiting · code
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name used: Merluccius productus · code
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272458
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:272458")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:272458'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it 91 cm max · egg 1.07–1.18 mm
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.
Life stages egg · larva
- CUFES Fish Eggs egg
- Ichthyoplankton larva · egg
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.
Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Merluccius
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
- Silhouette · Tessa Rehill · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Merluccius productus · source
- Photo · NOAA Photo Library, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “North Pacific hake” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1358983544
- Length · worms_attribute
- Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗