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Eastern Pacific roughy

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Species of fish

Eastern Pacific roughy
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Trachichthyiformes
Family: Trachichthyidae
Genus: Hoplostethus
Species: H. pacificus
Binomial name
Hoplostethus pacificus
Garman, 1899

The eastern Pacific roughy (Hoplostethus pacificus) is a slimehead of the order Beryciformes. It is found in the Southeast Pacific from Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands to Peru. It can be found as deep as 703 m (2,306 ft).

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Hoplostethus pacificus". FishBase. December 2016 version.
Taxon identifiers
Hoplostethus pacificus


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