Metallic roughy
| Metallic roughy | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beryciformes |
| Family: | Trachichthyidae |
| Genus: | Hoplostethus |
| Species: | H. metallicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Hoplostethus metallicus Fowler, 1938 | |
The metallic roughy (Hoplostethus metallicus) is a slimehead of the order Beryciformes. It is native to the Western Central Pacific along the eastern seaboard of Negros Island in the Philippines and other locations in the Sulu Sea. It has a deep-water range of 55–550 m (180–1,804 ft).[2] It is known from only 25 collected specimens, but members of this genus are known to frequently be "locally abundant," occurring in dense schools over seamounts.[1]
References
- 1 2 Moore, J.A. (2009). "Hoplostethus metallicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Hoplostethus metallicus" in FishBase. December 2016 version.
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