Back Stokvis Afrikaans Lluç de Sud-àfrica Catalan Merluccius capensis CEB Kap-Seehecht German Merluccius capensis Basque قلابدهان دماغه Persian Merlu du Cap French Merluccius capensis Italian Zuid-Afrikaanse heek Dutch Капская мерлуза Russian
| Shallow-water Cape hake | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gadiformes |
| Family: | Merlucciidae |
| Genus: | Merluccius |
| Species: | M. capensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Merluccius capensis Castelnau, 1861
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Merluccius capensis (shallow-water Cape hake or South African hake) is a ray-finned fish in the genus Merluccius, found in the south-eastern Atlantic Ocean, along the coast of South Africa. It is a long, lean fish with a large head, similar in appearance to the European hake and the deep-water Cape hake. By day, it lives close to the bottom on the continental shelf and upper slope at depths not usually exceeding 400 m (1,300 ft); it makes a large, daily vertical migration rising at night to feed in the nectonic zone, and it also migrates southwards in spring and northwards in autumn. It is an important commercial fish species in southern Africa.
- ^ Iwamoto, T. (2015). "Merluccius capensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T15522216A15603600. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T15522216A15603600.en.
- ^ "Fisheries and Aquaculture - Global Production". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Retrieved 2024-05-06.