Kingdom Animalia Class Actinopterygii Family Trachichthyidae Rank Species | Phylum Chordata Order Beryciformes Genus Gephyroberyx | |
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Similar Gephyroberyx, Gephyroberyx japonicus, Beryciformes, Slimehead, Hoplostethus mediterraneus mediterraneus | ||
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. 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.
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