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Trachichthyidae
Smallscale slimehead
Hoplostethus melanopus
Twenty Five Centimeters Trachichthyid Fish
- Black
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Deep-bodied
- Medium
Black
Regional distribution
Deep-bodied
MediumSmallscale slimehead is a marine fish from Indo-West Pacific. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 25 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Roughies and Allies
- Family
- Trachichthyidae
- Genus
- Hoplostethus
- Maximum length
- 25 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: Natal in South Africa, Somalia, the United Arabic Emirates on the Madagascar Ridge (Ref. 9869 ) to Japan (Jon Moore, pers. comm.) and Indonesia. Southeast Atlantic: off Namibia and Cape Town, South Africa.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Water
Conservation status
