Merluccius tasmanicus

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Merluccius tasmanicus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gadiformes
Family: Merlucciidae
Genus: Merluccius
Species:
M. tasmanicus
Binomial name
Merluccius tasmanicus
Matallanas & Lloris, 2006 [1]

Merluccius tasmanicus is a species of fish from the family Merlucciidae from the western Pacific and south-eastern Pacific and south-western Atlantic which was described in 2006. [1] It is however considered to be synonymous with Merluccius australis by some authorities. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Merluccius tasmanicus" in FishBase. February 2006 version.
  2. Mariana Y. Del Antoni; Matias Delpiani; Andrew L. Stewart & Juan Martin Díaz de Astarloa (2015). "Merluccius tasmanicus Matallanas & Lloris 2006 is a junior synonym of M. australis (Hutton 1872) (Gadiformes: Merluciidae) based on morphological and molecular data". Zootaxa. 3956 (1): 029–055. Abstract.