Optivus
| Optivus | |
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| Slender Roughy (O. elongatus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beryciformes |
| Family: | Trachichthyidae |
| Genus: | Optivus Whitley, 1947 |
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Optivus is a fish genus from the family Trachichthyidae found from near the surface to depths of 320 m (1,050 ft) in the southwest Pacific Ocean off Australia (O. agastos and O. agrammus) and New Zealand (O. elongatus).
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Optivus agastos M. F. Gomon, 2004 (violet roughy)
- Optivus agrammus M. F. Gomon, 2004 (western roughy)
- Optivus elongatus (Günther, 1859) (slender roughy)
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Optivus in FishBase. October 2012 version.
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