Biology:Optivus

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Optivus
Optivus elongatus (Slender roughy).jpg
Slender roughy (O. elongatus)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Trachichthyiformes
Family: Trachichthyidae
Genus: Optivus
Whitley, 1947

Optivus is a fish genus from the family Trachichthyidae found from near the surface to depths of 320 m (1,050 ft) in the southwest Pacific Ocean off Australia (O. agastos and O. agrammus) and New Zealand (O. elongatus).

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

  • Optivus agastos M. F. Gomon, 2004 (violet roughy)
  • Optivus agrammus M. F. Gomon, 2004 (western roughy)
  • Optivus elongatus (Günther, 1859) (slender roughy)

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Optivus in FishBase. October 2012 version.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q6415712 entry