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Merlucciidae
hake
Merluccius bilinearis
Merlucciid Fish beneath the Atlantic Ocean
- Temperate
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- Elongated
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
Largehake is a marine fish of Northwest Atlantic. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 76 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cods and Hakes
- Family
- Merlucciidae
- Genus
- Merluccius
- Maximum length
- 76 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Northwest Atlantic: coast of Canada and USA from Bell Isle Channel to the Bahamas; most common from southern Newfoundland to South Carolina.
- Conservation status
- NTNear Threatened
Class
Family
Conservation status
