The silver roughy or Mediterranean slimehead (''Hoplostethus mediterraneus'') is a small

deep-sea fish Deep-sea fish are fish that live in the darkness below the sunlit surface waters, that is below the epipelagic or photic zone of the sea. The lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep-sea fish. Other deep sea fishes include the flashlig ...

species belonging to 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 ...

family (Trachichthyidae). It is found widely at depths of in the Atlantic, ranging from Iceland and Georges Bank in the north to South Africa and Brazil in the south, including the Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico. It is also found in the Western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea.

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silver roughy Fish of the Mediterranean Sea Fish of the Atlantic Ocean Fish of the Indian Ocean silver roughy silver roughy {{Beryciformes-stub