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GBIF·2417334speciesAnimalia0 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classHolocephali
  4. ›orderChimaeriformes
  5. ›familyChimaeridae
  6. ›genusChimaera
Chimaera cubana
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Cuban chimaera

Chimaera cubana Howell Rivero, 1936

Also calledChimère De Cuba (fra) · Conejo de lo alto (spa) · Mariposa (spa) · Quimera Cubano (spa) · Quimera-crioula (por) · quimera (spa) · Кубинская химера (rus)

First described in: Howell Rivero, L. 1936. Some new, rare and little-known fishes from Cuba. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 41(4): 41-76.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2417334.