Biology:Chilean roughy
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Short description: Species of fish
| Chilean roughy | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Species: | H. fragilis
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| Hoplostethus fragilis (F. de Buen, 1959)
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Leiogaster fragilis de Buen, 1959 | |
The Chilean roughy (Hoplostethus fragilis) is a slimehead native to the Valparaíso region of Chile in the southeast Pacific. It lives at depths between 250 and 350 m (820 and 1,150 ft).[1] It has been known to contain high levels of mercury.
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Hoplostethus fragilis" in FishBase. October 2015 version.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q4498715 entry
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