Chimaera (genus)

There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:

• Chimaera argiloba Last, W. T. White & Pogonoski, 2008 (Whitefin chimaera)
• Chimaera bahamaensis Kemper, Ebert, Didier & Compagno, 2010 (Bahamas ghost shark)
• Chimaera buccaginella Clerkin, Elbert, & Kemper, 2017 (Dark-mouth chimaera)
• Chimaera carophila Kemper, Ebert, Naylor & Didier, 2014 (Brown chimaera){{cite journal |author=Kemper, J.M. |author2=Ebert, D.A. |author3=Naylor, G.J.P. |author4=Didier, D.A. |name-list-style=amp |year=2014 |title=Chimaera carophila (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), a new species of chimaera from New Zealand |journal= Bulletin of Marine Science |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=63–81 |doi=10.5343/bms.2014.1042}}
• Chimaera compacta Iglésias, Kemper & Naylor, 2022{{cite journal| title = Chimaera compacta, a new species from southern Indian Ocean, and an estimate of phylogenetic relationships within the genus Chimaera (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeridae)| year = 2022| last1 = Iglésias| first1 = S. P.| last2 = Kemper| first2 = J. M.| last3 = Naylor| first3 = G. J. P.| name-list-style=amp| journal = Ichthyological Research| volume = 69| issue = 1| pages = 31–45| s2cid = 233622655| doi = 10.1007/s10228-021-00810-9| bibcode = 2022IchtR..69...31I}} (Stubby chimaera)
• Chimaera cubana Howell-Rivero, 1936 (Cuban chimaera)
• Chimaera didierae Clerkin, Elbert, & Kemper, 2017 (Falkor chimaera)
• Chimaera fulva Didier, Last & W. T. White, 2008 (Southern chimaera)
• Chimaera jordani S. Tanaka (I), 1905 (Jordan's chimaera)
• Chimaera lignaria Didier, 2002 (Carpenter's chimaera)
• Chimaera macrospina Didier, Last & W. T. White, 2008 (Longspine chimaera)
• Chimaera monstrosa Linnaeus, 1758 (Rabbit fish)
• Chimaera notafricana Kemper, Ebert, Compagno & Didier, 2010 (Cape chimaera)
• Chimaera obscura Didier, Last & W. T. White, 2008 (Shortspine chimaera)
• Chimaera ogilbyi Waite, 1898 (Ogilby's ghostshark)
• Chimaera opalescens Luchetti, Iglésias & Sellos, 2011 (Opal chimaera){{cite journal|author1=Luchetti, E.A.|author2=Iglésias, S.P.|author3=Sellos, D.Y.|name-list-style=amp |year=2011 |title=Chimaera opalescens n. sp., a new chimaeroid (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali) from the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean |journal= Journal of Fish Biology |volume=79 |issue=2 |pages=399–417 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03027.x|pmid=21781099|bibcode=2011JFBio..79..399L }}
• Chimaera orientalis Angulo, M. I. Bussing, W. A. Bussing & Murase, 2014 (Eastern Pacific black chimaera){{cite journal |author=Angulo, A. |author2=López, M.I. |author3=Bussing, W.A. |author4=Murase, A. |name-list-style=amp |year=2014 |title=Records of chimaeroid fishes (Holocephali: Chimaeriformes) from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, with the description of a new species of Chimaera (Chimaeridae) from the eastern Pacific Ocean |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3861 |issue=6 |pages=554–574 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265729099 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3861.6.3|pmid=25283429 }}
• Chimaera owstoni S. Tanaka (I), 1905 (Owston's chimaera)
• Chimaera panthera Didier, 1998 (Leopard chimaera)
• Chimaera phantasma D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1900 (Silver chimaera)
• Chimaera stellata Teramura, Senou & Hirase, 2024 (Stellated chimaera)
• Chimaera supapae Ebert, Krajangdara, Fahmi, & Kemper, 2024 (Andaman shortnose chimaera){{cite journal| last1=Ebert|first1=D.A.| last2=Krajangdara|first2=T.| last3=Fahmi| last4=Kemper|first4=J.M.| title=Chimaera supapae (Holocephali: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), a new species of chimaera from the Andaman Sea of Thailand| journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology| volume=72| pages=84–90| year=2024| url=https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RBZ-2024-0006.pdf| doi=10.26107/RBZ-2024-0006}}
• Chimaera willwatchi Clerkin, Elbert, & Kemper, 2017 (Seafarer ghostshark)

Several fossil species are attributed to Chimaera, but only two are confidently assignable to it. These two are C. seymourensis from the Late-Eocene La Meseta Formation on Seymour Island off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula,{{cite journal| title=Chimaeroid fish remains from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula | year=1991 | last1=Ward | first1=David J. | last2=Grande | first2=Lance | journal=Antarctic Science | volume=3 | issue=3 | pages=323–330 | s2cid=131686318 |doi = 10.1017/S095410209100038X| bibcode=1991AntSc...3..323W | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231774042}} and C. pliocenica from the Pliocene of Tuscany, Italy.{{Cite journal |last1=Popov |first1=Evgeny V. |last2=Johns |first2=Marjorie J. |last3=Suntok |first3=Stephen |date=2020-01-02 |title=A New Genus of Chimaerid Fish (Holocephali, Chimaeridae) from the Upper Oligocene Sooke Formation of British Columbia, Canada |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2020.1772275 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |language=en |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=e1772275 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2020.1772275 |bibcode=2020JVPal..40E2275P |s2cid=221751740 |issn=0272-4634}} Chimaera zangerli from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Seymour Island{{cite journal |last1=Stahl |first1=Barbara J. |last2=Chatterjee |first2=Sankar |year=1999 |title=A Late Cretaceous Chimaerid (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali) from Seymour Island, Antarctica |journal=Palaeontology |volume=42 |issue=6 |pages=979–989 |doi=10.1111/1475-4983.00105 |doi-access=free|bibcode=1999Palgy..42..979S }} was considered by later authors to belong to Elasmodectes instead. C. eophantasma from the Paleocene of England has since been considered a synonym of Elasmodus hunteri. C. gosseleti and C. rupeliensis from the Oligocene of Belgium are synonymous with each other, with C. gosseleti being the senior synonym, and have subsequently been placed in the genus Harriotta. Chimaera javana from the Miocene of Java is lost, and therefore considered a nomen dubium. "Chimaera" anomala from the Miocene of Australia is more similar to Ischyodus, and does not belong to Chimeridae.

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