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GBIF·5215473speciesAnimalia3 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classHolocephali
  4. ›orderChimaeriformes
  5. ›familyChimaeridae
  6. ›genusHydrolagus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Portuguese Chimaera

Hydrolagus lusitanicus Moura, Figueiredo, Bordalo-Machado, Almeida & Gordo, 2005

Also calledChimère portugaise (fra) · Coelho (por) · Lusitaania merijänes (est) · Quimera-lusitana (por) · chiméra lusitánská (ces) · portugalinsillikuningas (fin)

First described in: Moura, T.; Figueiredo, I.; Bordolo-Machado, P.; Almeida, C.; Gordo, L. S. (2005). A new deep-water chimaerid species, Hydrolagus lusitanicus n. sp., from off mainland Portugal with a proposal of a new identification key for the genus Hydrolagus (Holocephali: Chimaeridae) in the north-east Atlantic. <em>J. Fish Biol. .</em> 67:742-751.

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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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5215473.