Hoplostethus fragilis

Hoplostethus fragilis, the Chilean roughy, is a slimehead native to the Valparaíso region of Chile in the southeast Pacific. It lives at depths between 250 and 350 m (820 and 1,150 ft).^[1] It has been known to contain high levels of mercury.

Hoplostethus fragilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Trachichthyiformes
Family:	Trachichthyidae
Genus:	Hoplostethus
Species:	H. fragilis
Binomial name
Hoplostethus fragilis (F. de Buen, 1959)
Synonyms
Leiogaster fragilis de Buen, 1959