MarBEF Data System

Deep-Sea taxon details

Merluccius capensis Castelnau, 1861

To FishBase images (<i>Merluccius capensis</i>, South Africa, by Le Noury, P.)

To FishBase images (Merluccius capensis, South Africa, by Le Noury, P.)

AphiaID

217746 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217746)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Merluccius Rafinesque, 1810

Orig. name

Merluccius capensis Castelnau, 1861

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. Paris. i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in South Africa

type locality contained in South Africa [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Merluccius capensis Castelnau, 1861. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217746 on 2024-05-01

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Merluccius capensis Castelnau, 1861. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217746 on 2024-05-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2002-01-02 17:49:40Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

[taxonomic tree]

original description Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. Paris. i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
Afrikaans	vlakwater stokvisstokvis	[details]
Dutch	Zuid-Afrikaanse heek	[details]
English	whitingstockfishSouth African whitingshallow-water Cape hakeshallow water hakehakeCape hake	[details]
Finnish	kapinkummeliturska	[details]
French	merluchemerlu du Capmerlu côtier du Capmerlu blanc du cap	[details]
German	KapseehechtKaphecht	[details]
Italian	nasello del capo	[details]
Polish	morszczuk kapski	[details]
Portuguese	pescada do reinopescada do Cabopescada do África do Sulpescada branca do Cabopescadamarmota	[details]
Spanish	pitillospijotamerluza del Cabocariocacabezudo	[details]

To Barcode of Life (60 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Merluccius capensis, South Africa, by Le Noury, P.)
To GenBank (111876 nucleotides; 40 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

To FishBase images (Merluccius capensis, South Africa, by Le Noury, P.)

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From other sources

Merluccius capensis