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Giant Chimaera
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Giant Chimaera

Chimaera lignaria

The carpenter's chimaera, giant chimaera, or giant purple chimaera (Chimaera lignaria) is a species of fish in the Chimaeridae family found near Australia and New Zealand. Its natural habitat is open seas.

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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 97516.