Gadiformes
Creators: name: Mucientes, Gonzalo
name: Arronte, Juan Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Gadiformes

description: ORDER GADIFORMES  Family Macrouridae  
 Gadomus longifilis (Goode & Bean, 1885) — Treadfin grenadier * Trachyrincus scabrus (Rafinesque, 1810) — Roughsnout grenadier Hymenocephalus italicus Giglioli, 1884 — Glasshead grenadier Coelorinchus caelorinchus (Risso, 1810) — Hollow nosed rattail Occasional catches mainly between 300–650 m depth in various “Demersales” surveys   
 Coelorinchus labiatus (Koelher, 1896) — Spearsnouted grenadier Reported from Galicia as C. vaillanti by Arté (1952).   
 Coryphaenoides rupestris Gunnerus, 1765 — Roundhead rat-tail   
 Cetonurus globiceps (Vaillant, 1884) — Globehead grenadier   
 * Malacocephalus laevi s (Lowe, 1843) — Rough rat-tail   
 * Nezumia aequalis (Günther, 1878) — Common Atlantic grenadier   
 Nezumia sclerorhynchus (Valenciennes, 1838) — Roughtip grenadier   
Family Moridae  
 Antimora rostrata (Günther, 1878) — Blue antimora   
 Gadella maraldi (Risso, 1810) — Gadella   
Recorded for Galicia based on one specimen of 11 cm TL caught to 570 m depth during the survey “Demersales 09”  
 Halargyreus johnsonii Günther, 1862 — Slender codling   
 Physiculus dalwigki Kaup, 1858 — Black codling   
 Not mentioned for Galicia by Cohen in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded from the Galicia Bank (Bañón et al., 2002) (Figure 4).   
 Mora moro (Risso, 1810) — Common mora   
 * Lepidion eques (Günther, 1887) — North Atlantic codling   
Family Melanonidae  
 Melanonus zugmayeri Norman, 1930 — Arrowtail   
Family Gadidae  
 * Raniceps raninus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Tadpole fish * Trisopterus luscus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Bib   
 * Trisopterus minutus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Poor cod Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 — Cod   
 * Micromesistius poutassou (Risso, 1827) — Blue whiting * Gadiculus argenteus argenteus Guichenot, 1850 — Silvery pout * Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Whiting * Pollachius pollachius (Linnaeus, 1758) — Pollack   
Family Lotidae  
 Gaidropsarus macrophthalmus (Günther, 1867) — Big-eyed rockling   
 Gaidropsarus granti (Regan, 1903) — Azores rockling   
 Recorded from the Galicia Bank (Bañón et al., 2002). Recorded again in 2009 in the same area (Figure 5), confirming its presence. This species has never been caught in the continental shelf of the Atlantic area and their distribution seems to be restricted to islands and seamounts.   
 Gaidropsarus guttatus (Collet, 1890) — No common name   
 * Gaidropsarus vulgaris (Cloquet, 1824) — 3-bearded rockling   
 * Gaidropsarus mediterraneus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Shore rockling   
 * Ciliata mustela (Linnaeus, 1758) — 5-bearded rockling   
 Molva molva (Linnaeus, 1758) — Ling   
 Molva macrophtalma (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common ling   
 Previously reported as M. dypterigia (Solórzano et al., 1988)   
Family Phycidae  
 Phycis phycis (Linnaeus, 1766) — Forkbeard * Phycis blennoides (Brünnich, 1768) — Greater forkbeard   
Family Merluccidae  
 *Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758) — European hake
description: Published as part of Mucientes, Gonzalo & Arronte, Juan Carlos, 2010, Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 2667 on pages 9-11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276366