The Tasmanian ruffe, ''Tubbia tasmanica'', is a

medusafish Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of percomorph fishes. The family includes about 31 species. They are found in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world. Young '' Icichthys lockingtoni'' specimens are abundant in the coastal ...

of the

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Centrolophidae, found in temperate waters in the

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and southwest

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s, at depths of between 700 and 850 m. Its length is up to 67 cm.

References

Centrolophidae Fish described in 1943 {{Perciformes-stub