WoRMS taxon details

Merluccius australis (Hutton, 1872)

272452  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272452)

  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 australis (Species)
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(of Gadus australis Hutton, 1872) Hutton, F. W. (1872). Fishes of New Zealand. Catalogue with diagnoses of the species. <em>Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department. Wellington.</em> 1-93 + 95-133, Pls. 1-12. [details] 
Type locality contained in Cook Strait  
type locality contained in Cook Strait [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Merluccius australis (Hutton, 1872). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=272452 on 2026-05-03
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Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description (of Gadus australis Hutton, 1872) Hutton, F. W. (1872). Fishes of New Zealand. Catalogue with diagnoses of the species. <em>Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department. Wellington.</em> 1-93 + 95-133, Pls. 1-12. [details] 

original description (of Merluccius polylepis Ginsburg, 1954) Ginsburg, I. (1954). Whitings on the coasts of the American continent. <em>United States Fish and Wildlife Service Fishery Bulletin.</em> 56 (96): 187-208. [details] 

Ecology

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

Other

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

context source (RAS) Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details] 

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [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] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Paratype (of Merluccius polylepis Ginsburg, 1954) USNM 157765, geounit Chile [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
Dutch Australische heek  [details]
English whitingsouthern hakePatagonian hakehakeChilean hake  [details]
French merlu austral  [details]
German südlicher Seehecht  [details]
Japanese ヒタチダラnyujiirando-heikuhitachi darahitachi  [details]
Spanish merluzónmerluza españolamerluza del surmerluza australmaltona  [details]
To Barcode of Life (42 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) (from synonym Gadus australis Hutton, 1872)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Merluccius polylepis Ginsburg, 1954)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Merluccius australis australis) (from synonym Merluccius australis australis (Hutton, 1872))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Merluccius australis polylepis) (from synonym Merluccius australis polylepis Ginsburg, 1954)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Merluccius australis) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Merluccius polylepis) (from synonym Merluccius polylepis Ginsburg, 1954)
To FAO Species fact sheets 
To FishBase 
To FishBase (from synonym Gadus australis Hutton, 1872)
To FishBase (from synonym Merluccius australis polylepis Ginsburg, 1954)
To FishBase (from synonym Merlangius australis (Hutton, 1872))
To FishBase (from synonym Merluccius polylepis Ginsburg, 1954)
To FishBase (from synonym Merluccius gayi australis (Hutton, 1872))
To FishBase (from synonym Merluccius gayi polylepis Ginsburg, 1954)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Merluccius polylepis Ginsburg, 1954)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Merluccius australis polylepis Ginsburg, 1954)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Merluccius australis australis (Hutton, 1872))
To GenBank (105 nucleotides; 41 proteins) (from synonym Gadus australis Hutton, 1872)
To GenBank (105 nucleotides; 41 proteins) 
To ITIS

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