Silver roughy
Silver roughy | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Beryciformes |
Family: | Trachichthyidae |
Genus: | Hoplostethus |
Species: | H. mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829 |
Binomial name | |
Hoplostethus mediterraneus | |
The silver roughy or Mediterranean slimehead (Hoplostethus mediterraneus) is a small deep-sea fish species belonging to the slimehead family (Trachichthyidae).[1] It is found widely at depths of 100 to 1,175 m (328–3,855 ft) in the Atlantic, ranging from Iceland and Georges Bank in the north to South Africa and Brazil in the south, including the Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico.[1] It is also found in the Western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Hoplostethus mediterraneus" in FishBase. July 2014 version.
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