Eastern Pacific roughy

Short description: Species of fish

Eastern Pacific roughy

Scientific classification
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).[1]

## References

1. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Hoplostethus pacificus" in FishBase. December 2016 version.

Wikidata ☰ Q2159557 entry

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