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Hydrolagus

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LabWho Lives Where?Lab · Class 6–12Ancient Indian Ocean Trade

Species

The 22 recognized species in this genus are:

  • Hydrolagus affinis (Brito Capello (pt), 1868) (small-eyed rabbitfish)
  • Hydrolagus africanus (Gilchrist, 1922) (African chimaera)
  • Hydrolagus alberti Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951 (gulf chimaera)
  • Hydrolagus alphus Quaranta, Didier, Long & Ebert, 2006 (whitespot ghost shark)
  • Hydrolagus barbouri (Garman, 1908) (ninespot chimaera)
  • Hydrolagus bemisi Didier, 2002 (pale ghostshark)
  • Hydrolagus colliei (G. T. Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (spotted ratfish)
  • Hydrolagus eidolon D. S. Jordan & C. L. Hubbs, 1925
  • Hydrolagus erithacus Walovich, Ebert & Kemper, 2017 (Robin's ghostshark)
  • Hydrolagus homonycteris Didier, 2008 (black ghostshark)
  • Hydrolagus lusitanicus T. Moura, I. M. R. Figueiredo, Bordalo-Machado, A. C. Almeida & Serrano-Gordo, 2005 (Portuguese chimaera)
  • Hydrolagus macrophthalmus F. de Buen, 1959 (bigeye chimaera)
  • Hydrolagus marmoratus Didier, 2008 (marbled ghost shark)
  • Hydrolagus matallanasi Soto & Vooren, 2004 (striped rabbitfish)
  • Hydrolagus mccoskeri L. A. K. Barnett, Didier, Long & Ebert, 2006 (Galápagos ghostshark)
  • Hydrolagus melanophasma K. C. James, Ebert, Long & Didier, 2009 (Eastern Pacific black ghostshark)
  • Hydrolagus mirabilis (Collett, 1904) (large-eyed rabbitfish)
  • Hydrolagus mitsukurii (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1904) (Mitsukuri's chimaera)
  • Hydrolagus novaezealandiae (Fowler, 1911) (dark ghostshark)
  • Hydrolagus pallidus Hardy & Stehmann, 1990 (pale chimaera)
  • Hydrolagus purpurescens (C. H. Gilbert, 1905) (purple chimaera)
  • Hydrolagus trolli Didier & Séret (fr), 2002 (abyssal ghostshark)

Fossil remains of the genus are known from the Miocene and Pliocene of California.

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