Common sawbelly

The Common sawbelly lives in the bathydemersal, marine, depth range 200 - 680 m environment.

Common Sawbelly and Amur False Gudgeons from Waterbodies in Uzbekistan. - Doklady Akad. Nauk Uzbek SSR. 1996. 1,2: 61-63. (In Russian) 39. Khurshut E.E., Kamilov B.G. More

but the common sawbelly was accidentally imported with consignments of Chinese carps. Apart from the latter the other three species reached the Iranian coast of the Caspian Sea naturally. More

Common names

Blacktip sawbelly in English
Common sawbelly in English
Mediterranean slimehead in Unknown
New Zeland sawbelly in English
roughy in English
Sawbelly in English
Silver roughy in English
新西兰胸棘鲷 in Mandarin Chinese
新西蘭胸棘鯛 in Mandarin Chinese

Order : Beryciformes
Family : Trachichthyidae
Genus : Hoplostethus
Species : Hoplostethus intermedius
Authority : Hector, 1875