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Cosmopolitan Rubyfish
Plagiogeneion rubiginosum
The rubyfish (Plagiogeneion rubiginosum) is a rover found from the southeastern Atlantic Ocean off South Africa through the Indian Ocean to the southwestern Pacific Ocean around Australia and New Zealand. This fish can be found at depths of from 50 to 600 metres (160 to 1,970 ft). It can reach a length of up to 60 centimetres (24 in) TL. This species is commercially important.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 411095.