The Species Black List

Hoplostethus marisrubri

Red Sea roughy

The Red Sea roughy (Hoplostethus marisrubri) is known only from five specimens collected from a single locality (possibly a seamount) in the middle of the Red Sea.

Status

Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List

Restriction tier

2, restricted, extent unclear

Class

Actinopterygii

Realm

Oceanic

Locality

The Red Sea

As IUCN records it

Hoplostethus marisrubri Kotlyar, 1986