Hoplostethus Explained

Hoplostethus is a genus of fish in the slimehead 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 (McCulloch, 1914) - giant sawbelly
• Hoplostethus grandperrini C. D. Roberts & M. F. Gomon, 2012^[1] - Grandperrin's giant sawbelly
• Hoplostethus intermedius (Hector, 1875) - blacktip sawbelly
• Hoplostethus japonicus (Hilgendorf, 1879) - Western Pacific roughy
• Hoplostethus latus (McCulloch, 1914) - palefin sawbelly
• Hoplostethus marisrubri Kotlyar, 1986 - Red Sea roughy
• Hoplostethus mediterraneus (Cuvier, 1829) - Mediterranean slimehead, silver roughy
• Hoplostethus melanopeza C. D. Roberts & M. F. Gomon, 2012^[1] - New Zealand giant sawbelly
• Hoplostethus melanopterus Fowler, 1938 - blackfin roughy
• Hoplostethus melanopus (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) - smallscale slimehead
• Hoplostethus mento (Garman, 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)^[2]
• Hoplostethus rifti (Kotlyar, 1986)
• Hoplostethus robustispinus (J. A. Moore & Dodd, 2010)^[3] - thickspine roughy
• Hoplostethus rubellopterus (Kotlyar, 1980)
• Hoplostethus shubnikovi (Kotlyar, 1980) - Metavay sawbelly
• Hoplostethus tenebricus (Kotlyar, 1980)
• Hoplostethus vniro (Kotlyar, 1995)

Notes and References

1. Roberts, 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.
2. Gomon, M. F. (2008). A new species of the roughy genus Hoplostethus (Trachichthyidae) off north-western Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, 189-94.
3. 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.