Hoplostethus

Short description: Genus of fishes

Hoplostethus

Mediterranean slimehead (H. mediterraneus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Trachichthyiformes
Family:  | Trachichthyidae
Genus:  | Hoplostethus
G. Cuvier, 1829
Species

30, see text

Hoplostethus is a genus of fish in the slimehead family.

## Species

There are 30 species in this genus:[1]

* Hoplostethus abramovi Kotlyar, 1986
* Hoplostethus atlanticus (Collett, 1889) \- orange roughy
* Hoplostethus cadenati Quéro, 1974 \- black slimehead
* Hoplostethus confinis Kotlyar, 1980
* Hoplostethus crassispinus Kotlyar, 1980
* Hoplostethus druzhinini Kotlyar, 1986
* Hoplostethus fedorovi (Kotlyar, 1986)
* Hoplostethus fragilis (F. de Buen, 1959) \- Chilean roughy
* Hoplostethus gigas (McCulloch, 1914) \- giant sawbelly
* Hoplostethus grandperrini C. D. Roberts & M. F. Gomon, 2012[2] \- Grandperrin's giant sawbelly
* Hoplostethus intermedius (Hector, 1875) \- blacktip sawbelly
* Hoplostethus japonicus (Hilgendorf, 1879) \- Western Pacific roughy
* Hoplostethus latus (McCulloch, 1914) \- palefin sawbelly
* Hoplostethus marisrubri Kotlyar, 1986 \- Red Sea roughy
* Hoplostethus mediterraneus (Cuvier, 1829) \- Mediterranean slimehead, silver roughy
* Hoplostethus melanopeza C. D. Roberts & M. F. Gomon, 2012[2] \- New Zealand giant sawbelly
* Hoplostethus melanopterus Fowler, 1938 \- blackfin roughy
* Hoplostethus melanopus (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) \- smallscale slimehead
* Hoplostethus mento (Garman, 1899) \- slimy head
* Hoplostethus metallicus (Fowler, 1938) \- metallic roughy
* Hoplostethus mikhailini (Kotlyar, 1986)
* Hoplostethus occidentalis (Woods, 1973) \- western roughy
* Hoplostethus pacificus (Garman, 1899) \- Eastern Pacific roughy
* Hoplostethus ravurictus (M. F. Gomon, 2008)[3]
* Hoplostethus rifti (Kotlyar, 1986)
* Hoplostethus robustispinus (J. A. Moore & Dodd, 2010)[4] \- thickspine roughy
* Hoplostethus rubellopterus (Kotlyar, 1980)
* Hoplostethus shubnikovi (Kotlyar, 1980) \- Metavay sawbelly
* Hoplostethus tenebricus (Kotlyar, 1980)
* Hoplostethus vniro (Kotlyar, 1995)

## References

1. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Hoplostethus in FishBase. January 2017 version.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roberts, C.D. & Gomon, M.F. (2012). A review of giant roughies of the genus Hoplostethus (Beryciformes, Trachichthyidae), with descriptions of two new Australasian species. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69: 341–54.
3. ↑ Gomon, M. F. (2008). A new species of the roughy genus Hoplostethus (Trachichthyidae) off north-western Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, 189-94.
4. ↑ Moore, J. A. and K. A. Dodd. (2010). A new species of the roughy genus Hoplostethus (Teleostei: Trachichthyidae) from the Philippines. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 51(1) 137-44.

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