''Hoplostethus'' is a

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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.

Species

There are 30 species in this genus: * '' Hoplostethus abramovi'' Kotlyar, 1986 * '' Hoplostethus atlanticus'' ( Collett, 1889) - orange roughy * '' Hoplostethus cadenati'' Quéro, 1974 - black slimehead * '' Hoplostethus confinis'' Kotlyar, 1980 * '' Hoplostethus crassispinus'' Kotlyar, 1980 * '' Hoplostethus druzhinini'' Kotlyar, 1986 * '' Hoplostethus fedorovi'' (Kotlyar, 1986) * '' Hoplostethus fragilis'' ( F. de Buen, 1959) - Chilean roughy * '' Hoplostethus gigas'' (

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, 1914) - giant sawbelly * '' Hoplostethus grandperrini'' C. D. Roberts & M. F. Gomon, 2012Roberts, 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. - Grandperrin's giant sawbelly * ''

Hoplostethus intermedius The blacktip sawbelly (''Hoplostethus intermedius'') is a small deep-sea fish species belonging to the slimehead family (Trachichthyidae). It is found off southern Australia and New Zealand. It ranges at depths from where it lives on the contin ...

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, 1875) - blacktip sawbelly * ''

Hoplostethus japonicus The Western Pacific roughy (''Hoplostethus japonicus'') is a species of slimehead found in the Northwest Pacific along Japan's southern coast in Sagami Bay, Suruga Bay, and the Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the ...

'' ( Hilgendorf, 1879) - Western Pacific roughy * ''

Hoplostethus latus The palefin sawbelly (''Hoplostethus latus'') is a medium-sized deep-sea fish species belonging to the slimehead family. It is native to Australia's southern waters and the Eastern Indian Ocean where it lives at depths between on the continent ...

'' (McCulloch, 1914) - palefin sawbelly * ''

Hoplostethus marisrubri The Red Sea roughy (''Hoplostethus marisrubri'') is a slimehead of the order Beryciformes. It is found in the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr a ...

'' Kotlyar, 1986 - Red Sea roughy * ''

Hoplostethus mediterraneus The silver roughy or Mediterranean slimehead (''Hoplostethus mediterraneus'') is a small deep-sea fish species belonging to the slimehead family (Trachichthyidae). It is found widely at depths of in the Atlantic, ranging from Iceland and George ...

'' (Cuvier, 1829) - Mediterranean slimehead, silver roughy * ''

Hoplostethus melanopeza The New Zealand giant sawbelly (''Hoplostethus melanopeza'') is a slimehead of the order Beryciformes. It is native to the South Pacific, more specifically the sub-tropical and temperate latitudes of the Tasman and South Fiji basins. It is also ...

'' C. D. Roberts & M. F. Gomon, 2012 - New Zealand giant sawbelly * ''

Hoplostethus melanopterus The blackfin roughy (''Hoplostethus melanopterus'') is a slimehead of the order Beryciformes. It has a very wide distribution across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, pe ...

'' Fowler, 1938 - blackfin roughy * ''

Hoplostethus melanopus The smallscale slimehead (''Hoplostethus melanopus'') is a deepwater fish of the family Trachichthyidae. It lives on the continental shelf at a depths of . It can reach sizes of up to TL. It is a brownish-grey color with blackish fins. It is f ...

'' ( M. C. W. Weber, 1913) - smallscale slimehead * '' Hoplostethus mento'' (

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, 1899) - slimy head * '' Hoplostethus metallicus'' (Fowler, 1938) - metallic roughy * '' Hoplostethus mikhailini'' (Kotlyar, 1986) * '' Hoplostethus occidentalis'' ( Woods, 1973) - western roughy * '' Hoplostethus pacificus'' (Garman, 1899) - Eastern Pacific roughy * '' Hoplostethus ravurictus'' (M. F. Gomon, 2008)Gomon, M. F. (2008)
A new species of the roughy genus ''Hoplostethus'' (Trachichthyidae) off north-western Australia.
''Memoirs of Museum Victoria'' 65, 189-94. * '' Hoplostethus rifti'' (Kotlyar, 1986) * '' Hoplostethus robustispinus'' ( J. A. Moore &

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, 2010)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. - thickspine roughy * '' Hoplostethus rubellopterus'' (Kotlyar, 1980) * '' Hoplostethus shubnikovi'' (Kotlyar, 1980) - Metavay sawbelly * '' Hoplostethus tenebricus'' (Kotlyar, 1980) * '' Hoplostethus vniro'' (Kotlyar, 1995)

References

Taxa named by Georges Cuvier Marine fish genera {{Beryciformes-stub