Merluccius Rafinesque [C. S.] 1810:25 [ref. 3594]. Masc. Merluccius smiridus Rafinesque 1810 (= Gadus merluccius Linnaeus 1758). Type by monotypy. Linnaeus' species spelled merlucius by Rafinesque. Spelled Merlucius by Schinz 1822:362 [ref. 3926] and some subsequent authors. Perhaps Onus Rafinesque 1810:12 [ref. 3595] predates Merluccius Rafinesque. •Valid as Merluccius Rafinesque 1810 -- (Svetovidov 1973:300 [ref. 7169], Cohen 1984:264 [ref. 13646], Svetovidov in Whitehead et al. 1986:677 [ref. 13676], Cohen 1986:325 [ref. 5646], Paxton et al. 1989:309 [ref. 12442], Inada in Cohen et al. 1990:327 [ref. 18936], Lloris & Rucabado 1991:61 [ref. 22530], Stepien & Rosenblatt 1996:586 [ref. 22296], Roldán et al. 2003:79 [ref. 27164], Grant & Leslie 2001:700 [ref. 25592], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:285 [ref. 25968], Iwamoto & Cohen 2003:1018 [ref. 27011], Lloris & Matallanas 2003:323 [ref. 27166], Lloris et al. 2003:17 [ref. 27698], Matallanas & Lloris 2006:193 [ref. 28491], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:205 [ref. 28944], Paxton et al. 2006:627 [ref. 28995], Endo & Kitagawa 2006:95 [ref. 30967], Díaz de Astarloa et al. 2011:1336 [ref. 31296]). Current status: Valid as Merluccius Rafinesque 1810. Merlucciidae: Merlucciinae.