Chilean roughy
The Chilean roughy (Hoplostethus fragilis) is a slimehead native to the Valparaíso region of Chile in the southeast Pacific. It lives at depths between 250 and 350 m (820 and 1,150 ft).[1] It has been known to contain high levels of mercury.
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| Species: | H. fragilis |
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| Hoplostethus fragilis (F. de Buen, 1959) | |
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Leiogaster fragilis de Buen, 1959 | |
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Hoplostethus fragilis" in FishBase. October 2015 version.
External links
Data related to Hoplostethus fragilis at Wikispecies
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