Eastern Pacific roughy

Species of fish

Eastern Pacific roughy

Scientific 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).[1]

## References

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

Taxon identifiers

Hoplostethus pacificus|

* Wikidata: Q2159557
* CoL: 3MN84
* FishBase: 15683
* GBIF: 2357127
* iNaturalist: 194838
* IRMNG: 10955261
* ITIS: 622163
* IUCN: 123359232
* OBIS: 272236
* Open Tree of Life: 3642448
* WoRMS: 272236

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