Order Chimaera | Phylum Chordata Rank Species | |
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Similar Hydrolagus, Chimaera, Purple chimaera, Striped rabbitfish, Chimaeridae | ||
The Eastern Pacific black ghostshark (Hydrolagus melanophasma, literally "black water rabbit") is a species of fish in the Chimaeridae family. Despite its name it is no shark, that is it does not belong to the clade Selachii being used for the modern classification of sharks. It is however distantly related to the sharks in the sense that both are cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes).
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