Emmelichthyidae

Rubyfish

Plagiogeneion rubiginosum

Sixty Centimeters Emmelichthyid Fish from the South African Coast

• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• Oceania
• Fusiform
• Large

The rubyfish (Plagiogeneion rubiginosum), also known as the cosmopolitan rubyfish, red ruby or ruby rover, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the family Emmelichthyidae, the rovers, bonnetmouths and rubyfishes. This species is found from the southeastern Atlantic Ocean off South Africa through the Indian Ocean to the southwestern Pacific Ocean around Australia and New Zealand. This species is commercially important.