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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