The eastern Pacific roughy (''Hoplostethus pacificus'') 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 ...

of the

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Beryciformes. It is found in the Southeast Pacific from Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands to Peru. It can be found as deep as .

References

Hoplostethus Marine fish of Ecuador Fish of Peru Galápagos Islands coastal fauna Fish described in 1899 {{Beryciformes-stub