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White-spot Chimaera
Hydrolagus alphus
The whitespot ghost shark (Hydrolagus alphus) is a chimaera species in the family Chimaeridae, which lives in parts of the Galápagos Islands in the southeast Pacific Ocean. It lives in waters with smooth slopes and tiny pebbles and grows to a total length of around 40–50 cm (16–20 in).
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Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 103029.