''Optivus'' is a fish genus from the family
Trachichthyidae found from near the surface to depths of in the southwest Pacific Ocean off
Australia
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(''O. agastos'' and ''O. agrammus'') and
New Zealand
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(''O. elongatus'').
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
* ''
Optivus agastos''
M. F. Gomon, 2004 (violet roughy)
* ''
Optivus agrammus''
M. F. Gomon, 2004 (western roughy)
* ''
Optivus elongatus''
( Günther, 1859) (slender roughy)
References
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Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley
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