Editing Haddock (section)

==Taxonomy and etymology==
The haddock was first formally [[Species description|described]] as ''Gadus aeglefinus'' in 1758 by [[Carolus Linnaeus]] in the 10th edition of volume one of his ''[[Systema naturae]]'' with a [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] given as "European seas".<ref name = Coffs>{{Cof record | spid = 12355 | title = ''Gadus aeglefinus'' | access-date = 6 June 2020}}</ref> In 1862 [[Theodore Nicholas Gill]] created the genus ''Melanogrammus'' with ''M. aeglefinus'' as its only species.<ref name = CofFG>{{Cof record | genid = 3044 | title = ''Melanogrammus'' | access-date = 6 June 2020}}</ref> The 5th edition of ''[[Fishes of the World]]'' classifies the haddock within the [[subfamily]] [[Gadinae]], the typical cods, of the family Gadidae, which is within the [[Superfamily (biology)|superfamily]] [[Gadoidea]] of the order Gadiformes.<ref name = Nelson5>{{cite book |author1=Nelson, J.S. |author1-link=Joseph S. Nelson |author2=Grande, T.C. |author3=Wilson, M.V.H. |year=2016 |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |place=Hoboken, NJ |pages=299–302 |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |lccn=2015037522 |oclc=951899884 |ol=25909650M |doi=10.1002/9781119174844}}</ref>

The generic name ''Melanogrammus'' means "black line", a reference to the black lateral line of this species. The specific name is a [[Latinisation of names|latinisation]] of the vernacular names ''egrefin'' and ''eglefin'', used in France and England.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/gadiformes2/ | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 19 April 2020 | title= Order Gadiformes: Families Euclichthyidae, Moridae, Macruronidae, Merulcciidae, Ranicipitidae, Bregnacerotidae, Muraenolepididae and Gadidae | access-date = 6 June 2020 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}</ref>