Species Rhinochimaera africana Compagno, Stehmann & Ebert, 1990

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• Rhinochimaera africana Compagno, L.J.V., Stehmann, M. & Ebert, D.A. 1990. Rhinochimaera africana sp. n., a new longnosed chimaera from southern Africa, with comments on the systematics and distribution of the genus Rhinochimaera Garman, 1901 (Chondrichthyes, Chimaeriformes, Rhinochimaeridae). South African Journal of Marine Science 9: 201-222 [206, figs 2-5].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAIAB 27744, Western Cape, west of Doring Bay, South Africa [31°59.8´S, 15°56.2´E].
  Paratype(s) ISH 1/90 (ex ZMMU P14393); SAM 23123; ZIL 48699; ZMM P14392.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

One record from North West Cape (about 19°36'S, 113°16'E), WA; records from TAS based on misidentification; temperate, disjunct (southern Africa and north-west Pacific)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Province (4)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

885-905 m Australia, 550-1450 elsewhere

 

General References

Didier, D.A. & Nakaya, K. 1999. Redescription of Rhinochimaera pacifica (Mitsukuri) and first record of R. africana Compagno, Stehmann & Ebert from Japan (Chimaeriformes: Rhinochimaeridae). Ichthyological Research 46(2): 139-152

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [504]

 

Common Name References

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Paddlenose Spookfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Apr-2012		16-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		26-Mar-2010	MODIFIED