- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classHolocephali
- ›orderChimaeriformes
- ›familyChimaeridae
- ›genusHydrolagus
Abyssal Ghostshark
Hydrolagus trolli Didier & Séret, 2002
Also calledChimère bleue à museau pointu (fra) · Puntsnuitdraakvis (nld) · Quimera-azul (por)
First described in: Didier, D. A.; Séret, B. (2002). Chimaeroid fishes of New Caledonia with description of a new species of <i>Hydrolagus</i> (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali). <em>Cybium.</em> 26(3): 225-233.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Pointy-nosed Blue Chimaera or Abyssal Ghostshark. 120.4 cm (47.4 in) TL (Didier and Seret 2002). Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Hawai’i; individuals identified as this species were observed with an ROV off central and southern California (Lundsten et al. 2009, Reichert et al. 2016). Depth: 612 – 2,064 m (2,007 – 6,770 ft) (min.: Didier and Séret 2002; max. Jacobsen Stout et al. 2016). Regarding California fish, “ Our specimens cannot yet be confirmed as Hydrolagus trolli until morphometric data and / or DNA samples from preserved specimens have been collected and analyzed ” (Reichert et al. 2016).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Where it has been recorded
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5215467.