The golden roughy (''Aulotrachichthys pulsator'') 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 ...

in the

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Beryciformes. It is found in the eastern Indian Ocean around south

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down to depths of around where it lives in rock reefs. It can grow to a length of .

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