Optivus agrammus
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| Species: | O. agrammus
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| Optivus agrammus M. F. Gomon, 2004
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Optivus agrammus, the western roughy, is a member of the family Trachichthyidae. It is endemic to south and west Australia in the eastern Indian Ocean where it lives in temperate reefs in depths of 40m to 320m.[1] It can reach lengths of 9.1cm.[1] Its name, "Optivus agrammus," comes from Latin: "Optivus" means "chosen"; and Greek: "agrammus" refers to the lack of stripes on its caudal fin.
References
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Optivus agrammus". FishBase. October 2015 version.
External links
Data related to Optivus agrammus at Wikispecies
