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

medusafish Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of scombriform ray-finned 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 ...

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 {{Scombroidei-stub