big roughy

Gephyroberyx darwinii

Trachichthyid Fish beneath the Caribbean Sea

Tropical
Southern Hemisphere
Transcontinental
Marine fish
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Africa
Central America and the Caribbean
North America
Oceania
South America
Southeast Asia
Deep-bodied
Compressed cross-section
Large
Tropical fish

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.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Roughies and Allies
Family: Trachichthyidae
Genus: Gephyroberyx
Maximum length: 60 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: deep_bodied
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Madeira and the Canary Islands to Senegal, Gulf of Guinea and South Africa. Western Atlantic: southern Scotian Shelf, Canada to Greater Antilles, western Caribbean, Panama and northern Gulf of Mexico (Ref. 7334 ). Indo-Pacific: off Natal (South Africa), Bay of Bengal, southern Australia, Chatham Plateau around New Zealand, and the Philippines (Ref. 4181 ). Also in northern South America (Moore, pers. comm.).
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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