{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic Taxobox | image = Optivus elongatus (Slender roughy).jpg | image_caption = Slender roughy ''(O. elongatus)'' | taxon = Optivus | authority = Whitley, 1947 }}
'''''Optivus''''' is a fish genus from the family Trachichthyidae found from near the surface to depths of {{convert|320|m|abbr=on}} in the southwest Pacific Ocean off Australia (''O. agastos'' and ''O. agrammus'') and New Zealand (''O. elongatus'').
==Species== The currently recognized species in this genus are:<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Optivus| month = October | year = 2012}}</ref> * ''Optivus agastos'' <small>M. F. Gomon, 2004</small> (violet roughy) * ''Optivus agrammus'' <small>M. F. Gomon, 2004</small> (western roughy) * ''Optivus elongatus'' <small>(Günther, 1859)</small> (slender roughy)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Wikispecies-inline|Optivus|''Optivus''}}
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Category:Optivus Category:Marine fish genera Category:Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley {{Beryciformes-stub}}