Chimaeridae

Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia & Freitas, Mafalda, 2018, Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes, Zootaxa 4429 (3), pp. 459-494 : 487

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:17EAB027-D9FB-4B8A-9847-3AA76EC96FCB
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5969997
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887A0-FFFE-FFFE-FF22-FD80FE4E02EC
treatment provided by	Plazi (2018-06-07 13:16:52, last updated 2024-11-29 10:54:09)
scientific name	Chimaeridae
status

Treatment

Family Chimaeridae

Chimaera monstrosa Linnaeus, 1758 —Quimera; Rabbit-fish

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.