Hoplostethus is a genus of fish in the slimehead family.
Species
There are 30 species in this genus:
- Hoplostethus abramovi <small>Kotlyar, 1986</small>
- Hoplostethus atlanticus <small>(Collett, 1889)</small> - orange roughy
- Hoplostethus cadenati <small>Quéro, 1974</small> - black slimehead
- Hoplostethus confinis <small>Kotlyar, 1980</small>
- Hoplostethus crassispinus <small>Kotlyar, 1980</small>
- Hoplostethus druzhinini <small>Kotlyar, 1986</small>
- Hoplostethus fedorovi <small>(Kotlyar, 1986)</small>
- Hoplostethus fragilis <small>(F. de Buen, 1959)</small> - Chilean roughy
- Hoplostethus gigas <small>(McCulloch, 1914)</small> - giant sawbelly
- Hoplostethus grandperrini <small>C. D. Roberts & M. F. Gomon, 2012</small> - Grandperrin's giant sawbelly
- Hoplostethus intermedius <small>(Hector, 1875)</small> - blacktip sawbelly
- Hoplostethus japonicus <small>(Hilgendorf, 1879)</small> - Western Pacific roughy
- Hoplostethus latus <small>(McCulloch, 1914)</small> - palefin sawbelly
- Hoplostethus marisrubri <small>Kotlyar, 1986</small> - Red Sea roughy
- Hoplostethus mediterraneus <small>(Cuvier, 1829)</small> - Mediterranean slimehead, silver roughy
- Hoplostethus melanopeza <small>C. D. Roberts & M. F. Gomon, 2012</small> - New Zealand giant sawbelly
- Hoplostethus melanopterus <small>Fowler, 1938</small> - blackfin roughy
- Hoplostethus melanopus <small>(M. C. W. Weber, 1913)</small> - smallscale slimehead
- Hoplostethus mento <small>(Garman, 1899)</small> - slimy head
- Hoplostethus metallicus <small>(Fowler, 1938)</small> - metallic roughy
- Hoplostethus mikhailini <small>(Kotlyar, 1986)</small>
- Hoplostethus occidentalis <small>(Woods, 1973)</small> - western roughy
- Hoplostethus pacificus <small>(Garman, 1899)</small> - Eastern Pacific roughy
- Hoplostethus ravurictus <small>(M. F. Gomon, 2008)</small>
- Hoplostethus rifti <small>(Kotlyar, 1986)</small>
- Hoplostethus robustispinus <small>(J. A. Moore & Dodd, 2010)</small> - thickspine roughy
- Hoplostethus rubellopterus <small>(Kotlyar, 1980)</small>
- Hoplostethus shubnikovi <small>(Kotlyar, 1980)</small> - Metavay sawbelly
- Hoplostethus tenebricus <small>(Kotlyar, 1980)</small>
- Hoplostethus vniro <small>(Kotlyar, 1995)</small>
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