Hydrolagus melanophasma

Hydrolagus melanophasma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Holocephali
Order: Chimaeriformes
Family: Chimaeridae
Genus: Hydrolagus
Species:
H. melanophasma
Binomial name
Hydrolagus melanophasma
(James, K.C., D.A. Ebert, D.J. Long and D.A. Didier, 2009)

The Eastern Pacific black ghostshark (Hydrolagus melanophasma, literally a combination of "water rabbit" and "black ghost") is a species of fish in the family Chimaeridae.[2] Despite its name, it does not belong to the clade Selachii used for the modern classification of sharks. It is, however, distantly related to the sharks in the sense that both are Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes).

References

  1. ^ James, K.C. & Ebert, D.A. 2011. Hydrolagus melanophasma. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 August 2014.
  2. ^ Carlos Bustamante, Hernán Flores, Yhon Concha-Pérez, Carolina Vargas-Caro, Julio Lamilla & Mike Bennett: First record of Hydrolagus melanophasma James, Ebert, Long & Didier, 2009 (Chondrichthyes, Chimaeriformes, Holocephali) from the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Res. vol.40 no.1 Valparaíso Mar. 2012


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