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GBIF·8075372speciesAnimalia0 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classHolocephali
  4. ›orderChimaeriformes
  5. ›familyChimaeridae
  6. ›genusChimaera
Chimaera carophila
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Brown Chimaera

Chimaera carophila Kemper, Ebert, Naylor & Didier, 2014

Also calledQuimera-de-Rekohu (por)

First described in: Kemper, J. M.; Ebert, D. A.; Naylor, G. J.; Didier, D. A. (2014). <I>Chimaera carophila</I> (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), a new species of chimaera from New Zealand. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 91(1): 63-81.

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 8075372.