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The Australian ghostshark was proposed as a model cartilaginous fish genome because of its relatively small genome size. Its genome is estimated to be 910 megabases long, which is the smallest among all the cartilaginous fishes and one-third the size of the human genome (3000 Mb).
Several near-shore species are purposefully caught for their meat, especially callorhinchids, Hydrolagus bemisi (pale ghost shark), and Hydrolagus novaezealandiae (dark ghost shark). Modern quotas have helped to moderate collection of these species to a sustainable level, though Callorhinchus milii (the Australian ghostshark ) experienced ...
The Australasian narrow-nosed spookfish has a bulging black eyes and a wispy tail.
Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New Zealand.. The Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish, or Harriotta avia, was found 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 ...
Ogilby's ghostshark (Chimaera ogilbyi), also known as the whitefish, is a species of chimaera, native to the waters of Australia and southern Indonesia. It lives near the ocean floor [1] on the continental shelf and continental slope 120–350 m (390–1,150 ft) deep. [2] It reaches a maximum size of 85.0 cm (33.5 in).
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 ...
The black ghostshark (Hydrolagus homonycteris), also known as the black chimaera, is a chimaera species within the family Chimaeridae. The species lives off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in depths of 500–1,450 m (1,640–4,760 ft). It has a black or dark brown body; males have a total length of ...