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Chimaeridae
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Description
Family Chimaeridae
Chimaera monstrosa Linnaeus, 1758 —Quimera; Rabbit-fish
Maul 1948: 140 | Albuquerque 1954 –56: 189 | Stehmann & Bürkel 1984c: 213 | Sanches 1986: 127 | Lloris et al. 1991: 224 | Carneiro et al. 2014: 16.
Distribution in Macaronesia. Madeira, Azores (Santos et al. 1997; Arruda 1997; Porteiro et al. 2010; Carneiro et al. 2014) and the Canary Islands (López Abellán et al. 1994; Brito et al. 2002; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003).
Remarks. According to Freitas et al. (2017), the presence of this species in the waters of the archipelago of Madeira needs confirmation.
Notes
Published as part of Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia & Freitas, Mafalda, 2018, Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes, pp. 459-494 in Zootaxa 4429 (3) on page 487, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1285016
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Chimaeriformes
- Family
- Chimaeridae
- Taxon rank
- family
References
- Maul, G. E. (1948) Lista Sistematica dos peixes assinalados nos mares da Madeira e indice alfabetico. In: Noronha, A. C. & Sarmento, A. A. Vertebrados da Madeira: Peixes. Junta Geral do Distrito Autonomo do Funchal, Funchal, 137 - 181.
- Albuquerque, R. M. (1954 - 56) Peixes de Portugal e ilhas adjacentes. Portugaliae Acta Biologica, Museu Nacional de Historia Natural e da Ciencia, Lisboa, Serie B, 1164 pp.
- Stehmann, M. & Burkel, D. L. (1984 c) Chimaeridae. In: Whitehead, P. J. P., Bauchot, M. - L., Hureau, J. - C. & Tortonese, E. (Eds.), Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Unesco, Paris, pp. 212 - 215.
- Sanches, J. G. (1986) Nomenclatura e diagnose dos principais peixes marinhos de Portugal. (Ciclostomos, Selaceos e Holocefalos). Instituto Nacional de Investigacao das Pescas, Lisboa, 184 pp.
- Lloris, D., Rucabado, J. & Figueroa, H. (1991) Biogeography of the Macaroneisan Ichthyofauna (the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, Cape verde and the African Enclave, Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal 43, 191 - 241.
- Carneiro, M., Martins, R., Landi, M. & Costa, F. O. (2014) Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf. European Journal of Taxonomy, 73, 1 - 73. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2014.73
- Santos, R. S., Porteiro, F. & Barreiros, J. P. (1997) Marine fishes of the Azores: annotated checklist and bibliography, Arquipelago, 1 (Supplement), 1 - 244.
- Arruda, L. M. (1997) Checklist of the marine fishes of the Azores. Arquivos do Museu Bocage, Nova Serie, 3 (2), 13 - 164.
- Porteiro, F., Menezes, G., Afonso, P., Monteiro, J. & Santos, R. (2010) Marine fish (Chondrichthyes, Actinopterygii). In: Borges, P. A. V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Goncalves, V., Martins, A. F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R. S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (Eds.), A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. Principia, Cascais, pp. 326 - 350.
- Lopez Abellan, L. J., Santamaria, M. T. G. & Balguerias, E. (1994) Resultados de la campana experimental de pesca, realizada en aguas del suroeste de la isla de Tenerife, Canarias 9206. Informes Tecnicos del Instituto Espanol de Oceanografi a, 147, 1 - 62.
- Brito, A., Pascual, P. J., Falcon, J. M., Sancho, A. & Gonzalez, G. (2002) Peces de las Islas Canarias: catalogo comentado e ilustrado. Francisco Lemus, La Laguna, 419 pp.