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Optivus
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Optivus

Optivus is a fish genus from the family Trachichthyidae found from near the surface to depths of 320 m (1,050 ft) in the southwest Pacific Ocean off Australia (O. agastos and O. agrammus) and New Zealand (O. elongatus).

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Slender Roughy

speciesOptivus elongatus

Violet Roughy

speciesOptivus agastos

Western Roughy

speciesOptivus agrammus

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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 90501.