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.[2] 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).[2] Based on broadly overlapping morphological features it sometimes (e.g., by IUCN) includes G. japonicus as a synonym.[1][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Trachichthyiformes |
| Family: | Trachichthyidae |
| Genus: | Gephyroberyx |
| Species: | G. darwinii
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| Gephyroberyx darwinii J. Y. Johnson, 1866
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References
edit- ^ a b Iwamoto, T. (2015). "Gephyroberyx darwinii". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015. IUCN: e.T16449531A16509807. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T16449531A16509807.en. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Gephyroberyx darwinii". FishBase. February 2007 version.
- ^ Kim, B.J., Go, Y.B., and Imamura, H. (2004). First record of the Trachichthyid Fish, Gephyroberyx darwinii (Teleostei: Beryciformes) from Korea. Korean J. Ichthyol. 16(1): 9-12.
External links
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Media related to Gephyroberyx darwinii at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Gephyroberyx darwinii at Wikispecies
