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Darwin's Roughy
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Other fish (coast and sea)

Darwin's Roughy

Gephyroberyx darwinii (Johnson, 1866)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishDarwin's Roughy
Dutch—
SpanishÁspero
Chinese达氏桥燧鲷
Scientific nameGephyroberyx darwinii (Johnson, 1866)

About this species

Gephyroberyx darwinii, the big roughy or Darwin's slimehead, is a species of fish in the slimehead family found widely in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans. 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). Based on broadly overlapping morphological features it sometimes (e.g., by IUCN) includes G. japonicus as a synonym.

Typical of Trachichthyidae, G. darwinii are laterally compressed, with a deep body, and have mucous-filled cavities within their heads. They possess large mouths with teeth on the vomer and palatine, large spines on their opercular bones, a ventral keel bearing robust scutes, and a forked tail. The species tends to be reddish in color.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderBeryciformes
FamilyTrachichthyidae
GenusGephyroberyx