The Brazilian luminous roughy (''Aulotrachichthys atlanticus'') is a
slimehead
Slimeheads, also known as roughies and redfish, are mostly small, exceptionally long-lived, deep-sea beryciform fish constituting the family Trachichthyidae (derived from the Greek ''trachys'' – "rough" and ''ichthys'' – "fish"). Found in tem ...
from the family
Trachichthyidae.
It is found in the southwestern
Atlantic off the coasts of
Brazil,
Uruguay and
Argentina at depths between .
[ It can reach a maximum length of .][
]
References
Brazilian luminous roughy
Fish of the Western Atlantic
Fish of Argentina
Fish of Brazil
Fish of Uruguay
Brazilian luminous roughy
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