The Tasmanian ruffe, Tubbia tasmanica, is a medusafish of the family Centrolophidae, found in temperate waters in the Indian and southwest Pacific Oceans, at depths of between 700 and 850 m. Its length is up to 67 cm.[1]
| Tasmanian ruffe | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Istiophoriformes |
| Family: | Centrolophidae |
| Genus: | Tubbia |
| Species: | T. tasmanica
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| Binomial name | |
| Tubbia tasmanica Whitley, 1943
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| Synonyms | |
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Mupus tasmanica (Whitley, 1943) | |
References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Tubbia tasmanica". FishBase. November 2014 version.
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