Hoplostethus
| Hoplostethus | |
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| Mediterranean slimehead (H. mediterraneus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beryciformes |
| Family: | Trachichthyidae |
| Genus: | Hoplostethus G. Cuvier, 1829 |
| Species | |
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about 30, see text | |
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Hoplostethus is a genus of fish in the slimehead family.
Species
About 30 species are in this genus:[1]
- 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[2] - 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)[2] - 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)[3]
- Hoplostethus rifti (Kotlyar, 1986)
- Hoplostethus robustispinus (J. A. Moore & Dodd, 2010)[4] - thickspine roughy
- Hoplostethus rubellopterus (Kotlyar, 1980)
- Hoplostethus shubnikovi (Kotlyar, 1980) - Metavay sawbelly
- Hoplostethus tenebricus (Kotlyar, 1980)
- Hoplostethus vniro (Kotlyar, 1995)
References
- ↑ Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds. Hoplostethus. FishBase. 2015.
- 1 2 Roberts, C.D. & Gomon, M.F. (2012). A review of giant roughies of the genus Hoplostethus (Beryciformes, Trachichthyidae), with descriptions of two new Australasian species. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69: 341–54.
- ↑ Gomon, M. F. (2008). A new species of the roughy genus Hoplostethus (Trachichthyidae) off north-western Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, 189-94.
- ↑ Moore, J. A. and K. A. Dodd. (2010). A new species of the roughy genus Hoplostethus (Teleostei: Trachichthyidae) from the Philippines. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 51(1) 137-44.
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