Gephyroberyx darwinii

Darwin's slimehead
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beryciformes
Family: Trachichthyidae
Genus: Gephyroberyx
Species: G. darwinii
Binomial name
Gephyroberyx darwinii
J. Y. Johnson, 1866

Darwin's slimehead (Gephyroberyx darwinii), also known as the big roughy, is a species of fish in the slimehead family found widely in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans.[2] This deep-sea species reaches a length of 60 cm (2.0 ft) and is mainly found at depths of 200 to 500 m (660–1,640 ft), but has been recorded between 9 and 1,210 m (30–3,970 ft).[2] Based on broadly overlapping morphological features it sometimes (e.g., by IUCN) includes G. japonicus as a synonym.[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 Iwamoto, T. (2015). "Gephyroberyx darwinii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2016.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2007). "Gephyroberyx darwinii" in FishBase. February 2007 version.
  3. Kim, B.J., Go, Y.B., and Imamura, H. (2004). First record of the Trachichthyid Fish, Gephyroberyx darwinii (Teleostei: Beryciformes) from Korea. Korean J. Ichthyol. 16(1): 9-12.
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