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Eastern Pacific black ghostshark
Hydrolagus melanophasma
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).
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 60449.