Hoplostethus

Hoplostethus
Mediterranean slimehead (H. mediterraneus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Trachichthyiformes
Family: Trachichthyidae
Genus: Hoplostethus
G. Cuvier, 1829
Species

30, see text

Hoplostethus is a genus of fish in the slimehead family.

Species

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There are 30 species in this genus:[1]

References

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  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Hoplostethus". FishBase. January 2017 version.
  2. ^ a b Roberts, C.D. & Gomon, M.F. (2012). A review of giant roughies of the genus Hoplostethus (Beryciformes, Trachichthyidae), with descriptions of two new Australasian species. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69: 341–54.
  3. ^ Gomon, M. F. (2008). A new species of the roughy genus Hoplostethus (Trachichthyidae) off north-western Australia. Archived 2013-12-25 at the Wayback Machine Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, 189-94.
  4. ^ Moore, J. A. and K. A. Dodd. (2010). A new species of the roughy genus Hoplostethus (Teleostei: Trachichthyidae) from the Philippines. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 51(1) 137-44.