Galapagos Species Database

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Hydrolagus mccoskeri Barnett, Didier, Long & Ebert, 2006

Galápagos Ghost Shark

Hydrolagus with head small with short, blunt snout; second dorsal fin only slightly indented along its length; preopercular and oral lateral line canals branching from the same node off the infraorbital canal and sharing a short common branch; dorsum medium brown with numerous narrow, sharply delineated irregular circular and elongate white blotches; ventrum white to tan with extremely fine brown mottling.

Deep-water (396 - 506 m) Bathypelagic

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Holocephali

Order
Chimaeriformes

Family
Chimaeridae

Genus
Hydrolagus

Species
mccoskeri

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Endemic

Status

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution

Distribution: Eastern Central Pacific: Galapagos Is. (Fernandina, Española, Marchena, San Cristóbal Is.).

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Froese, R. Pauly, D. (eds.) (2010) FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org
  • McCosker, J.E. Rosenblatt, R.H. (2010) The fishes of the Galápagos Archipelago: an update. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., Ser. 4, vol. 61, Suppl. II, no. 11: 167-195.
  • Barnett, L. A. K. Oceanic, N., & Didier, D. (2006) Hydrolagus mccoskeri sp. nov., a new species of chimaeroid fish from the Galápagos Islands (Holocephali: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae). Zootaxa, 1328(1), 27-38.

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