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Chimaeridae The Chimaeridae, or short-nosed chimaeras, are a family of cartilaginous fish. They resemble other chimaeras in general form and habits, but have short, rounded snouts, without the modifications found in related families. Many species have lon ...

found in the

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s.Weigmann, S. (2016)
Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity.
''Journal of Fish Biology, 88 (3): 837-1037.'' Deep sea chimaera

Species

The 23 recognized species in this genus are: * ''

Hydrolagus affinis The small-eyed rabbitfish (''Hydrolagus affinis'') is a species of fish in the family Chimaeridae. It has very wide distribution almost everywhere in Northern Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, wi ...

'' ( Brito Capello ( pt), 1868) (small-eyed rabbitfish) * ''

Hydrolagus africanus The African chimaera (''Hydrolagus africanus'') is a species of fish in the family Chimaeridae found near Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, p ...

'' ( Gilchrist, 1922) (African chimaera) Walovich, K.A., Ebert, D.A., Long, D.J. & Didier, D.A. (2015)
Redescription of ''Hydrolagus africanus'' (Gilchrist, 1922) (Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), with a review of southern African chimaeroids and a key to their identification.
''African Journal of Marine Science, 37 (2): 157-165.'' * ''

Hydrolagus alberti The gulf chimaera (''Hydrolagus alberti'') is a species of cartilaginous fish in the family Chimaeridae found near Mexico, the United States, and possibly Suriname. Its natural habitat is open sea The sea, connected as the world ocean or ...

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, 1951 (gulf chimaera) * ''

Hydrolagus alphus The whitespot ghost shark (''Hydrolagus alphus'') is a chimaera species in the family Chimaeridae, which lives in parts of the Galápagos Islands in the southeast Pacific Ocean. It lives in waters with steep slopes and boulders and grows to a to ...

'' Quaranta, Didier,

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& Ebert, 2006 (whitespot ghost shark) * ''

Hydrolagus barbouri The ninespot chimaera (''Hydrolagus barbouri'') is a species of chimaera endemic to the waters off Japan and the South China Sea in the Northwest Pacific. Its natural habitat is open seas and its depth range is . It can reach a maximum total leng ...

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, 1908) (ninespot chimaera) * ''

Hydrolagus bemisi The pale ghost shark (''Hydrolagus bemisi'') is a shortnose chimaera of the family Chimaeridae. It is endemic to New Zealand waters. Taxonomy This species was first described by Dominique A. Didier in 2002. Although it had been recognised, th ...

'' Didier, 2002 (pale ghostshark) * ''

Hydrolagus colliei The spotted ratfish (''Hydrolagus colliei'') is a chimaera found in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean. Often seen by divers at night in the Pacific Northwest, this cartilaginous fish gets its characteristic name from a pointed rat-like tail. The ...

'' ( G. T. Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (spotted ratfish) * ''

Hydrolagus erithacus ''Hydrolagus erithacus'', or Robin's ghostshark, is a species of fish in the family Chimaeridae. It is found in the southeastern Atlantic and southwestern Indian oceans. There exists a rapid development of fisheries since the 1970s in their terr ...

'' Walovich, Ebert & Kemper, 2017 (Robin's ghostshark) Walovich, K.A., Ebert, D.A. & Kemper, J.M. (2017): ''Hydrolagus erithacus'' sp. nov. (Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), a new species of chimaerid from the southeastern Atlantic and southwestern Indian oceans. ''Zootaxa, 4226 (4): 509–520.'' * ''

Hydrolagus homonycteris The black ghostshark (''Hydrolagus homonycteris''), also known as the black chimaera, is a chimaera species within the family Chimaeridae. The species lives off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in depths ...

'' Didier, 2008 (black ghostshark) * ''

Hydrolagus lemures The bight ghostshark or blackfin ghostshark (''Hydrolagus lemures'') is a species of chimaera endemic to the waters of Australia from Queensland to Western Australia where it is found near the ocean floor of the continental shelf and upper slo ...

'' ( Whitley, 1939) (bight ghostshark) * ''

Hydrolagus lusitanicus ''Hydrolagus'' is a genus of fish in the family Chimaeridae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.Weigmann, S. (2016)Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeog ...

'' T. Moura, I. M. R. Figueiredo, Bordalo-Machado, A. C. Almeida & Serrano-Gordo, 2005 (Portuguese chimaera) * ''

Hydrolagus macrophthalmus The bigeye chimaera (''Hydrolagus macrophthalmus'') is a species of fish in the family Chimaeridae. It is found in Chile and possibly Ecuador. Its natural habitat is open seas. It is only known from the preabyssal zone off Valparaiso, and may o ...

'' F. de Buen, 1959 (bigeye chimaera) * ''

Hydrolagus marmoratus The marbled ghostshark (''Hydrolagus marmoratus'') is a chimaera species in the family Chimaeridae The Chimaeridae, or short-nosed chimaeras, are a family of cartilaginous fish. They resemble other chimaeras in general form and habits, but ...

'' Didier, 2008 (marbled ghost shark) * ''

Hydrolagus matallanasi ''Hydrolagus matallanasi'', the striped rabbitfish, is a species of very rare, deep-water chimaera that lives in the ocean at depths to 600 m. It was discovered in 2001 by a team of Brazilian scientists. These 40-cm-long fishes have an unusual a ...

'' Soto & Vooren, 2004 (striped rabbitfish) * ''

Hydrolagus mccoskeri ''Hydrolagus'' is a genus of fish in the family Chimaeridae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.Weigmann, S. (2016)Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeog ...

'' L. A. K. Barnett, Didier,

& Ebert, 2006 (Galápagos ghostshark) * '' Hydrolagus melanophasma'' K. C. James, Ebert, Long & Didier, 2009 (Eastern Pacific black ghostshark) * ''

Hydrolagus mirabilis ''Hydrolagus'' is a genus of fish in the family Chimaeridae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.Weigmann, S. (2016)Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeog ...

'' ( Collett, 1904) (large-eyed rabbitfish) * ''

Hydrolagus mitsukurii ''Hydrolagus mitsukurii'' is a species of fish in the family Chimaeridae found in China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and possibly Indonesia. Its natural habitat is open seas. It is one of several species commonly called "spookfis ...

'' ( D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1904) (Mitsukuri's chimaera) * ''

Hydrolagus novaezealandiae The dark ghostshark (''Hydrolagus novaezealandiae'') is a shortnose chimaera of the family Chimaeridae, found on the continental shelf around the South Island of New Zealand. In June 2018 the New Zealand Department of Conservation classified the ...

'' ( Fowler, 1911) (dark ghostshark) * ''

Hydrolagus ogilbyi Ogilby's ghostshark (''Chimaera ogilbyi''), also known as the whitefish, is a species of chimaera, native to the waters of Australia and southern Indonesia. It lives near the ocean floor on the continental shelf and continental slope deep. It rea ...

'' ( Waite, 1898) (Ogilby's ghostshark) * ''

Hydrolagus pallidus ''Hydrolagus pallidus'' is a marine species of fish in the family Chimaeridae found in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, specifically near Iceland and the Canary Islands. It is commonly known as the pale chimaera or pale ghost shark, although it is ...

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& Stehmann, 1990 (pale chimaera) * ''

Hydrolagus purpurescens The purple chimaera or purple ghostshark (''Hydrolagus purpurescens'') is a species of fish in the family Chimaeridae found off Japan and Hawaii. Its natural habitat is open sea The sea, connected as the world ocean or simply the ocean, is ...

'' ( C. H. Gilbert, 1905) (purple chimaera) * ''

Hydrolagus trolli The pointy-nosed blue chimaera (''Hydrolagus trolli''), also known as the pointy-nosed blue ratfish, Ray Troll's chimaera or abyssal ghostshark, is a species of deep-sea fish in the family Chimaeridae. Etymology The specific name ''trolli'' hon ...

'' Didier & Séret ( fr), 2002 (abyssal ghostshark)

References

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