Darwin's slimehead (''Gephyroberyx darwinii''), also known as the big roughy, is a species of fish in the

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 ...

family found widely in the Atlantic and

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oceans. This deep-sea species reaches a length of and is mainly found at depths of , but has been recorded between . Based on broadly overlapping morphological features it sometimes (e.g., by

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) includes '' G. japonicus'' as a

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.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.

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* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q2400366 Trachichthyidae Taxa named by James Yate Johnson Fish described in 1866