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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.
This chimaera has a brown compressed, elongate body. The holotype and paratype of the species, both juvenile females, had a total length of 38.1 centimetres (15.0 in) and 22.7 centimetres (8.9 in), respectively. It lives in rocky habitats close to the sea floor, in waters about 395–510 metres (1,296–1,673 ft) deep.
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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 new species was identified by its size, body shape, head, coloring and other physical features, the study said. DNA analysis found the new species had at least 7.9% genetic divergence from ...
The Australasian narrow-nosed spookfish has a bulging black eyes and a wispy tail.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), of the two specimens that were caught and examined, one, a female, had a body length of 24.4 centimeters (9.6 in) and a total length of 48 cm (19 in), and the other, a male, had a body length of 24.9 cm (9.8 in) and a total length of 41.9 cm (16.5 in).
Scientists from the Shark Specialist Group, a division of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, said that 16 per cent of ghost shark species are “threatened” or “near ...