WoRMS taxon details
Merluccius paradoxus Franca, 1960
217745 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217745)
accepted
Species
Merluccius capensis paradoxus Franca, 1960 · unaccepted
Merluccius merluccius paradoxus Franca, 1960 · unaccepted
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. (2025). FishBase. Merluccius paradoxus Franca, 1960. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217745 on 2025-05-07
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Nomenclature
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]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.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]
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
Unreviewed
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]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 (Merluccius paradoxus)
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 (706 nucleotides; 50 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Merluccius capensis paradoxus Franca, 1960)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Merluccius paradoxus)
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 (706 nucleotides; 50 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
