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Chimaeras live in temperate ocean floors, with some species inhabiting depths exceeding 2,000 m (6,600 ft), [8] with relatively few modern species regularly inhabiting shallow water. Exceptions include the members of the genus Callorhinchus , the rabbit fish and the spotted ratfish , which locally or periodically can be found at shallower depths.
One ghost shark was caught on camera swimming off the coast of California in 2017. The specimens studied by NIWA to make this identification were found during other research studies for Fisheries ...
Chimaera bahamaensis, commonly known as the Bahamas ghost shark, is a species of fish in the family Chimaeridae. It is found in North Atlantic Ocean around the Bahamas , specifically it has been found east of Andros Island .
Studies so far have shown the sequence and the gene order are more similar between human and elephant shark genomes than between human and teleost fish genomes (pufferfish and zebrafish), though humans are more closely related to teleost fishes than to the Australian ghostshark. The Elephant Shark Genome Project was launched with the aim to ...
The assessment in 2020 also found that 15 per cent of ghost shark species were “so understudied that their extinction risk cannot be determined". Show comments Advertisement
DNA analysis found the new species had at least 7.9% genetic divergence from other ghost shark species. The research team included David Ebert, Tassapon Krajangdara, Fahmi and Jenny Kemper.
The newly discovered species of ghost shark, known as a spookfish. It may be early to get the Halloween decorations out for most, but in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean spooky season is well ...
Apristurus aphyodes Nakaya & Stehmann, 1998 (white ghost catshark) Apristurus australis Sato, Nakaya & Yorozu, 2008 (Pinocchio catshark) Apristurus breviventralis Kawauchi, Weigmann & Nakaya, 2014 (shortbelly catshark) [4] Apristurus brunneus C. H. Gilbert, 1892 (brown catshark) Apristurus bucephalus W. T. White, Last & Pogonoski, 2008 (bighead ...