Chilean roughy
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H. fragilis
Binomial name
Hoplostethus fragilis
(F. de Buen, 1959)
Synonyms

Leiogaster fragilis de Buen, 1959

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.

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Hoplostethus fragilis" in FishBase. October 2015 version.
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