Hydrolagus melanophasma
| Eastern Pacific black ghostshark | |
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| Species: | H. melanophasma
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| Hydrolagus melanophasma (James, K.C., D.A. Ebert, D.J. Long and D.A. Didier, 2009)
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The Eastern Pacific black ghostshark (Hydrolagus melanophasma, literally "black water rabbit") is a species of fish in the Chimaeridae family. Despite its name it is no shark, that is it does not belong to the clade Selachii being used for the modern classification of sharks. It is however distantly related to the sharks in the sense that both are cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes).
References
- Carlos Bustamante, Hernán Flores, Yhon Concha-Pérez, Carolina Vargas-Caro, Julio Lamilla & Mike Bennett: First record of Hydrolagus melanophasma James, Ebert, Long & Didier, 2009 (Chondrichthyes, Chimaeriformes, Holocephali) from the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Res. vol.40 no.1 Valparaíso mar. 2012
External links
- Greg Laden: The Eastern Pacific Black Ghost Shark on smithsonian.com, 2009-9-28 (contains a short video of the fish)
- Christine Dell'Amore: Weird New Ghostshark Found; Male Has Sex Organ on Head. National Geographic News, 2009-9-22
- http://www.fishbase.se/summary/Hydrolagus-melanophasma.html
Notes
- ^ James, K.C. & Ebert, D.A. 2011. Hydrolagus melanophasma. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 August 2014.