hake
Sign in to savethumb|Silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis thumb|Spotted codling, Urophycis regia
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- Instance of
- taxon
- Subclass of
- Gadiformes
- Has part
- Phycidae
- Parent taxon
- Merluccius
- Image
- Illustration from The Natural History of British Fishes (1802) by Edward Donovan, digitally enhanced by rawpixel-com 25.jpg
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8 sectionsContents
- Description
- ''Merlucciidae''
- Commercial use
- Fisheries
- Over-exploitation
- Human introduction to non-native areas
- Notes
- References
thumb|Silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis thumb|Spotted codling, Urophycis regia
Hake () is the common name for fish in the Merlucciidae family of the northern and southern oceans and the Phycidae family of the northern oceans. Hake is a commercially important fish in the same taxonomic order, Gadiformes, as cod and haddock.