Optivus
Appearance
Optivus | |
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Slender roughy (O. elongatus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Trachichthyiformes |
Family: | Trachichthyidae |
Genus: | Optivus Whitley, 1947 |
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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Optivus". FishBase. October 2012 version.
External links
[edit]- Data related to Optivus at Wikispecies