Tasmanian ruffe

Tasmanian ruffe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Centrolophidae
Genus: Tubbia
Species: T. tasmanica
Binomial name
Tubbia tasmanica
Whitley, 1943

The Tasmanian ruffe, Tubbia tasmanica, the only member of the genus Tubbia, is a medusafish of the family Centrolophidae, found in temperate waters in the Indian and southwest Pacific Oceans, at depths of between 700 and 850 m. Its length is up to 67 cm.

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