Gephyroberyx darwinii: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Actinopterygii
Order
Trachichthyiformes
Family
Trachichthyidae
Genus
Gephyroberyx
Species
Gephyroberyx darwinii
Scientific Name
Gephyroberyx darwinii

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Gephyroberyx darwinii

Gephyroberyx darwinii, the big roughy or Darwin's slimehead, is a species of fish in the slimehead family found widely in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans. 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). Based on broadly overlapping morphological features it sometimes (e.g., by IUCN) includes G. japonicus as a synonym.

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Gephyroberyx darwinii in languages:

Czech
červenice Darwinova
English
Big Roughy
English
Darwin's Slimehead
English
Darwin's Roughy
English
Finescale Roughy
Japanese
ハシキンメ

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Gephyroberyx darwinii
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Gephyroberyx darwinii
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