Hoplostethus

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Kingdom Animalia Family Trachichthyidae Phylum Chordata Order Beryciformes		Class Actinopterygii Scientific name Hoplostethus Rank Genus

Similar Orange roughy, Slimehead, Hoplostethus mediterraneus mediterraneus, Beryciformes, Beryx

Orange roughy hoplostethus atlanticus

Hoplostethus is a genus of fish in the slimehead family.

There are 30 species in this genus:

Hoplostethus abramovi Kotlyar, 1986

Hoplostethus atlanticus (Collett, 1889) - orange roughy

Hoplostethus cadenati Quéro, 1974 - black slimehead

Hoplostethus confinis Kotlyar, 1980

Hoplostethus crassispinus Kotlyar, 1980

Hoplostethus druzhinini Kotlyar, 1986

Hoplostethus fedorovi (Kotlyar, 1986)

Hoplostethus fragilis (F. de Buen, 1959) - Chilean roughy

Hoplostethus gigas (McCulloch, 1914) - giant sawbelly

Hoplostethus grandperrini C. D. Roberts & M. F. Gomon, 2012 - Grandperrin's giant sawbelly

Hoplostethus intermedius (Hector, 1875) - blacktip sawbelly

Hoplostethus japonicus (Hilgendorf, 1879) - Western Pacific roughy

Hoplostethus latus (McCulloch, 1914) - palefin sawbelly

Hoplostethus marisrubri Kotlyar, 1986 - Red Sea roughy

Hoplostethus mediterraneus (Cuvier, 1829) - Mediterranean slimehead, silver roughy

Hoplostethus melanopeza C. D. Roberts & M. F. Gomon, 2012 - New Zealand giant sawbelly

Hoplostethus melanopterus Fowler, 1938 - blackfin roughy

Hoplostethus melanopus (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) - smallscale slimehead

Hoplostethus mento (Garman, 1899) - slimy head

Hoplostethus metallicus (Fowler, 1938) - metallic roughy

Hoplostethus mikhailini (Kotlyar, 1986)

Hoplostethus occidentalis (Woods, 1973) - western roughy

Hoplostethus pacificus (Garman, 1899) - Eastern Pacific roughy

Hoplostethus ravurictus (M. F. Gomon, 2008)

Hoplostethus rifti (Kotlyar, 1986)

Hoplostethus robustispinus (J. A. Moore & Dodd, 2010) - thickspine roughy

Hoplostethus rubellopterus (Kotlyar, 1980)

Hoplostethus shubnikovi (Kotlyar, 1980) - Metavay sawbelly

Hoplostethus tenebricus (Kotlyar, 1980)

Hoplostethus vniro (Kotlyar, 1995)

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