Hydrolagus
Hydrolagus | |
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Hydrolagus colliei | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Order: | Chimaeriformes |
Family: | Chimaeridae |
Genus: | Hydrolagus T. N. Gill, 1862 |
Type species | |
Chimaera colliei Lay & Bennett, 1839
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Hydrolagus is a genus of fish in the family Chimaeridae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.[1]
Species[]
The 23 recognized species in this genus are:
- Hydrolagus affinis ( (pt), 1868) (small-eyed rabbitfish)
- Hydrolagus africanus (Gilchrist, 1922) (African chimaera) [2]
- Hydrolagus alberti Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951 (gulf chimaera)
- Hydrolagus alphus , , & , 2006 (whitespot ghost shark)
- Hydrolagus barbouri (Garman, 1908) (ninespot chimaera)
- Hydrolagus bemisi Didier, 2002 (pale ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus colliei (G. T. Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (spotted ratfish)
- Hydrolagus erithacus , Ebert & , 2017 (Robin's ghostshark) [3]
- Hydrolagus homonycteris Didier, 2008 (black ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus lemures (Whitley, 1939) (bight ghostshark)
- , , , & , 2005 (Portuguese chimaera)
- Hydrolagus macrophthalmus F. de Buen, 1959 (bigeye chimaera)
- Hydrolagus marmoratus Didier, 2008 (marbled ghost shark)
- Hydrolagus matallanasi & , 2004 (striped rabbitfish)
- Hydrolagus mccoskeri , Didier, & Ebert, 2006 (Galápagos ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus melanophasma , Ebert, Long & Didier, 2009 (Eastern Pacific black ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus mirabilis (Collett, 1904) (large-eyed rabbitfish)
- Hydrolagus mitsukurii (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1904) (Mitsukuri's chimaera)
- Hydrolagus novaezealandiae (Fowler, 1911) (dark ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus ogilbyi (Waite, 1898) (Ogilby's ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus pallidus & , 1990 (pale chimaera)
- Hydrolagus purpurescens (C. H. Gilbert, 1905) (purple chimaera)
- Hydrolagus trolli Didier & (fr), 2002 (abyssal ghostshark)
References[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- Hydrolagus
- Cartilaginous fish genera
- Marine fish genera
- Taxa named by Theodore Gill
- Cartilaginous fish stubs