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GBIF·2417336speciesAnimalia0 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classHolocephali
  4. ›orderChimaeriformes
  5. ›familyChimaeridae
  6. ›genusChimaera
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Carpenter’s Chimaera

Chimaera lignaria Didier, 2002

Also calledQuimera-gigante (por)

First described in: Didier, D. A. (2002). Two new species of chimaeroid fishes from the southwestern Pacific Ocean (Holocephali, Chimaeridae). <em>Ichthyol. Res.</em> 49(4): 299-306.

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 2417336.