Western luminous roughy

Western luminous roughy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beryciformes
Family: Trachichthyidae
Genus: Aulotrachichthys
Species: A. argyrophanus
Binomial name
Aulotrachichthys argyrophanus
Woods, 1961[1]

The Western luminous roughy, Aulotrachichthys argyrophanus, is a slimehead from the Trachichthyidae family.[1] It is found in the southwest Atlantic, off the Amazon River mouth in northern Brazil.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Aulotrachichthys argyrophanus" in FishBase. 8 2012 version.
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