Optivus
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).
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| Slender roughy (O. elongatus) | |
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| Genus: | Optivus Whitley, 1947 |
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 Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Optivus in FishBase. October 2012 version.
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