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Callorhinchus callorynchus (Plownose chimaera; Elephant fish; Elephantfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The elephantfish (or cockfish) (Callorhinchus callorynchus) is a species of fish in the Callorhinchidae family found in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil. Its natural habitat is open seas.
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Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Callorhinchus callorynchus

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1Food consumption by the cock fish, Cdorhynchus callorhynchus (Holocephali: Callorhynchidae), from Patagonia (Argentina), Edgardo Di Giácomo, Ana M. Parma & José M. Orensanz, Environmental Biology of Fishes 40: 199-211, 1994
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
3Trophic ecology of the lobster krill Munida gregaria in San Jorge Gulf, Argentina, Julio H. Vinuesa & Martín Varisco, Invest. Mar., Valparaíso, 35(2): 25-34, 2007
4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
5Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0