Hydrolagus
| Hydrolagus | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Hydrolagus colliei | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Chimaeriformes |
| Family: | Chimaeridae |
| Genus: | Hydrolagus T. N. Gill, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Chimaera colliei Lay & Bennett, 1839 | |
Hydrolagus is a genus of fish in the family Chimaeridae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.[1]
Species
There are currently 23 recognized species in this genus:
- Hydrolagus affinis (Brito Capello (pt), 1868) (Small-eyed chimaera)
- Hydrolagus africanus (Gilchrist, 1922) (African chimaera) [2]
- Hydrolagus alberti Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951 (Gulf chimaera)
- Hydrolagus alphus Quaranta, Didier, Long & Ebert, 2006 (White-spot ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus barbouri (Garman, 1908) (Nine-spot chimaera)
- Hydrolagus bemisi Didier, 2002 (Pale ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus colliei (G. T. Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (Spotted chimaera)
- Hydrolagus erithacus Walovich, Ebert & Kemper, 2017 (Robin's ghostshark) [3]
- Hydrolagus homonycteris Didier, 2008 (Black ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus lemures (Whitley, 1939) (Black-fin ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus lusitanicus T. Moura, I. M. R. Figueiredo, Bordalo-Machado, A. C. Almeida & Serrano-Gordo, 2005 (Portuguese chimaera)
- Hydrolagus macrophthalmus F. de Buen, 1959 (Big-eye chimaera)
- Hydrolagus marmoratus Didier, 2008 (Marbled ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus matallanasi Soto & Vooren, 2004 (Striped chimaera)
- Hydrolagus mccoskeri L. A. K. Barnett, Didier, Long & Ebert, 2006 (Galápagos ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus melanophasma K. C. James, Ebert, Long & Didier, 2009 (Eastern Pacific black ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus mirabilis (Collett, 1904) (Large-eyed ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus mitsukurii (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1904) (Mitsukuri's chimaera)
- Hydrolagus novaezealandiae (Fowler, 1911) (Dark ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus ogilbyi (Waite, 1898) (Ogilby's ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus pallidus Hardy & Stehmann, 1990 (Pale chimaera)
- Hydrolagus purpurescens (C. H. Gilbert, 1905) (Purple chimaera)
- Hydrolagus trolli Didier & Séret (fr), 2002 (Abyssal ghostshark)
References
- ↑ Weigmann, S. (2016): Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88 (3): 837-1037.
- ↑ Walovich, K.A., Ebert, D.A., Long, D.J. & Didier, D.A. (2015): Redescription of Hydrolagus africanus (Gilchrist, 1922) (Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), with a review of southern African chimaeroids and a key to their identification. African Journal of Marine Science, 37 (2): 157-165.
- ↑ Walovich, K.A., Ebert, D.A. & Kemper, J.M. (2017): Hydrolagus erithacus sp. nov. (Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), a new species of chimaerid from the southeastern Atlantic and southwestern Indian oceans. Zootaxa, 4226 (4): 509–520.
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