Phycidae

Phycis phycis

The hake ( Phycidae ) live in shoals in the Atlantic Ocean, in the marginal seas such as the Mediterranean and the North Sea. Some species and juvenile fish sometimes will stay in estuaries. They get their name from the long, thin, forked at the end of pelvic fins.

Features

Hake have two dorsal fins, the first with 8 to 13 fin rays, the second with 43-68 fin rays, and an anal fin, which is sometimes associated with the caudal fin. The pelvic fins have two highly elongated fin rays. The animals are between 35 centimeters and 1.30 meters long. Your otoliths ( "ear stones " ) are very specialized in contrast to those of other cods. Their eggs are small and have a diameter of less than a millimeter. Hake have only one chin Bartel.

Genera and species

• Genus Phycis Phycis blennoides ( Brünnich, 1768).
• Phycis chesteri Goode & Bean, in 1879.
• Phycis phycis (Linnaeus, 1766 ).

• Urophycis brasiliensis ( Kaup, 1858).
• Urophycis chuss ( Walbaum, 1792).
• Urophycis cirrata ( Goode & Bean, 1896).
• Urophycis earllii ( Bean, 1880).
• Urophycis floridana ( Bean & Dresel, 1884).
• Urophycis mystacea Miranda - Ribeiro, 1903.
• Urophycis regia ( Walbaum, 1792).
• Urophycis tenuis ( Mitchill, 1814).

The American ichthyologist Joseph S. Nelson, in Fishes of the World, the standard work on fish systematics, and the subfamily Gaidropsarinae to the fork cod, in the phylogenetic study of the Japanese ichthyologists Hiromitsu Endo they are, as well as the hake, a subfamily of cod ( Gadidae ). In Internet sources Fishbase and Catalog of Fishes, however, the genera and species of Gaidropsarinae to the family of burbot ( Lotidae ) will be provided without forming a defined subfamily.