''Hydrolagus'' is a
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of
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in the
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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 lo ...
found in the
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and
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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.''
Species
The 23 recognized species in this genus are:
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Hydrolagus affinis''
( Brito Capello ( pt), 1868) (small-eyed rabbitfish)
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Hydrolagus africanus''
( 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.''
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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)
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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 ...
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Quaranta, Didier, Long
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& Ebert, 2006 (whitespot ghost shark)
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Hydrolagus barbouri''
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, 1908) (ninespot chimaera)
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Hydrolagus bemisi''
Didier, 2002 (pale ghostshark)
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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. Th ...
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( G. T. Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (spotted ratfish)
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Hydrolagus erithacus''
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.'']
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Hydrolagus homonycteris''
Didier, 2008 (black ghostshark)
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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 ...
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( Whitley, 1939) (bight ghostshark)
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Hydrolagus lusitanicus''
T. Moura, I. M. R. Figueiredo, Bordalo-Machado, A. C. Almeida & Serrano-Gordo, 2005 (Portuguese chimaera)
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Hydrolagus macrophthalmus''
F. de Buen, 1959 (bigeye chimaera)
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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 ...
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Didier, 2008 (marbled ghost shark)
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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 ...
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Soto & Vooren, 2004 (striped rabbitfish)
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Hydrolagus mccoskeri''
L. A. K. Barnett, Didier, Long
Long may refer to:
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& Ebert, 2006 (Galápagos ghostshark)
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Hydrolagus melanophasma''
K. C. James, Ebert, Long & Didier, 2009 (Eastern Pacific black ghostshark)
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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 ...
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( Collett, 1904) (large-eyed rabbitfish)
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Hydrolagus mitsukurii''
( D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1904) (Mitsukuri's chimaera)
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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 ...
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( Fowler, 1911) (dark ghostshark)
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Hydrolagus ogilbyi''
( Waite, 1898) (Ogilby's ghostshark)
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Hydrolagus pallidus''
Hardy & Stehmann, 1990 (pale chimaera)
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Hydrolagus purpurescens''
( C. H. Gilbert, 1905) (purple chimaera)
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Hydrolagus trolli''
Didier & Séret ( fr), 2002 (abyssal ghostshark)
References
Cartilaginous fish genera
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Theodore Gill
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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