After all, it’s easier for a few branches of a growing evolutionary tree to forget a behavior – tonic immobility “has been independently lost at least five times through chondrichthyan ...

Ghost sharks (Chimaeriformes) Many strange, silent things haunt the cold, dark depths of the ocean, but among the strangest of all are the chimaeras, AKA ghost sharks or spookfish.

The paper ‘ Harriotta avia sp. nov. – a new rhinochimaerid (Chimaeriformes: Rhinochimaeridae) described from the Southwest Pacific’ by Brittany Finucci et al, is published in Environmental Biology of ...

Chimaeras, belonging to the ancient order Chimaeriformes, are distant relatives of sharks and rays. The genus name Chimaera, derived from Greek mythology, pays homage to the mythical fire ...

Chondrichthyans are now widely adopted as models for examining the development and evolution of the stem gnathostome body plan. The fins of some cartilaginou ...

ABSTRACT: Chimaeras, fish in the order Chimaeriformes, are among the rarest and least studied fish in the class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish). Previous records have indicated that a species of ...

Chimaeras, fish in the order Chimaeriformes, are among the rarest and least studied fish in the class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish). Previous records have indicated that a species of chimaera ...

Class Chondrichthyes, fish with cartilage instead of bones, contains two subclasses, sharks, or Elasmobranchs, and Holocephans, which includes the order Chimaeriformes.

Chimaeriformes Rhinochimaeridae Rhinochimaera atlantica Holt and Byrne, 1909 The first published record of this species occurs in Melo and Menezes (2002) from an experimental bottom-trawl fishery ...

Chimaeras, also known as ghost sharks, are cartilaginous fishes in the order Chimaeriformes. The ghost shark’s closest living relatives are sharks, though in evolutionary terms, they branched off from ...