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Valparaiso Roughy
Hoplostethus fragilis
Hoplostethus fragilis, the Chilean roughy, is a slimehead native to the Valparaíso region of Chile in the southeast Pacific. It lives at depths between 250 and 350 m (820 and 1,150 ft). It has been known to contain high levels of mercury.
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