Biology:Silver roughy

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Short description: Subspecies of fish

Silver roughy
Hoplostethus mediterraneus mediterraneus.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Trachichthyiformes
Family: Trachichthyidae
Genus: Hoplostethus
Species:
H. mediterraneus
Binomial name
Hoplostethus mediterraneus
Cuvier, 1829

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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Hoplostethus mediterraneus" in FishBase. July 2014 version.

Wikidata ☰ Q9293999 entry