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Thickspine roughy

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Thickspine roughy
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Trachichthyiformes
Family: Trachichthyidae
Genus: Hoplostethus
Species:
H. robustispinus
Binomial name
Hoplostethus robustispinus
Moore & Dodd, 2010

The thickspine roughy (Hoplostethus robustispinus) is a slimehead of the order Beryciformes. It is native to the Northwestern Pacific near the Philippines and Japan where it can be found as deep as 660 m (2,170 ft). It can reach sizes of up to 35.4 cm (13.9 in) SL.[1]

References

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


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