Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758) Merluccius vulgaris: Spicer, 1931; Gottlieb, 1955 (Fish., Heb.). Merluccius merluccius: Liebman, 1934; Hornell, 1935; Bodenheimer, 1935; Bodenheimer, 1937; Ben-Tuvia, 1953a; Perlmutter, 1956; Ben-Tuvia, 1971a; Oren et al., 1971 (Fish.); Ben-Yami & Glaser, 1974 (Fish.); Tom, 1976 (Heb.); Roth & Hornung, 1977 (Poll.); Hornung et al., 1980 (Poll.); Ben-Tuvia, 1983c (Heb.); Ravid et al., 1985 (Poll.); Hornung & Ramelow, 1987, (Poll.); Klausewitz, 1989; Hornung & Kress, 1991 (Poll.); Spanier & Galil, 1991; Golani, 1996; Pisanty & Golani, 1996; Golani, 1997 (Heb.); Toretzky, 2002 (Gen.); Golani, 2005; Goren & Galil, 2005; Stern, 2010; Edelist et al., 2011a (Fisher.); Levitt, 2012, Goren & Galil, 2015; Goren, et al., 2016; Goren. e t al., 2019. ORDER: OPHIDIIFORMES OPHIDIIDAE

Published as part of Golani, Daniel, 2021, An updated Checklist of the Mediterranean fishes of Israel, with illustrations of recently recorded species and delineation of Lessepsian migrants, pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4956 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4956.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4691195