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Trachichthyidae
New Zealand giant sawbelly
Hoplostethus melanopeza
Trachichthyid Fish from the Pacific Ocean
- Cross-climate
- Temperate
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Oceania
- Deep-bodied
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Tropical fish
Cross-climate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
LargeNew Zealand giant sawbelly is a marine fish found around South Pacific. It inhabits marine waters. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 51.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Roughies and Allies
- Family
- Trachichthyidae
- Genus
- Hoplostethus
- Maximum length
- 51.5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- South Pacific: sub-tropical and temperate latitudes of the Tasman and South Fiji Basins; SE Australian slopes on the west to the outer Bay of Plenty and southern Kermadec Ridge at the north end of the North Island in New Zealand in the east.
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