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Deep-sea chimaera photographed by the NOAAS Okeanos Explorer.Visible on its snout are tiny pores which lead to electroreceptor cells.. Chimaeras are soft-bodied, shark-like fish with bulky heads and long, tapered tails; measured from the tail, they can grow up to 150 cm (4.9 ft) in length.
The silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma), or ginzame, is a species of holocephalan in the family Chimaeridae. They are found in the deep sea along the coast of East Asia, from Japan to Indonesia. They are chondrichthyans, closely related to sharks and rays, which means that they have a fully cartilaginous skeleton with no true bones.
The chimaera is a marine species, typically found on slanted and flat areas of deep oceans at the continental slope, sometimes extending into the bathyal zone. It has a broad depth range, occurring in waters 400 metres (1,300 ft) – 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) in depth, typically in the deeper part of this range. [5]
Chimaeras, also known as ghost sharks or ratfishes, are a group of cartilaginous fishes that live in the deep sea, more than 1,600 feet below the surface, the study said.
Hydrolagus mitsukurii (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1904) (Mitsukuri's chimaera) Hydrolagus novaezealandiae (Fowler, 1911) (dark ghostshark) Hydrolagus pallidus Hardy & Stehmann, 1990 (pale chimaera) Hydrolagus purpurescens (C. H. Gilbert, 1905) (purple chimaera) Hydrolagus trolli Didier & Séret , 2002 (abyssal ghostshark)
It is a deep-water species that has been recorded on deep continental and insular slopes at depths between 610 and 2,000 metres (2,000 and 6,560 ft), but more commonly below 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). [1] Specimens provisionally assigned to this species have also been seen in waters near California and Hawaii, alive, in 2009. As with many other ...
The brown chimaera can be found between depths of 846–1350 m however, they are most commonly found around 1000m in depth. C. carophila are distributed in the plateaus and slopes of deep water near New Zealand.
Chimaera supapae, the Andaman shortnose chimaera, is a type of chimaera of the family Chimaeridae discovered exclusively in the Andaman Sea of Thailand. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] It is described from just one single specimen collected at around 775 m depth.