''Paratrachichthys trailli'', the sandpaper fish, 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 ...

belonging to the

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Trachichthyidae, found in southern

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and southern

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

at depths between . It can reach lengths of up to .

References

trailli Fish described in 1875 Taxa named by Frederick Hutton (scientist) Fish of Australia Fish of the Pacific Ocean Marine fish of New Zealand {{Beryciformes-stub