Animalia > Chordata > Holocephali > Chimaeriformes > Chimaeridae > Chimaera > Chimaera monstrosa

Chimaera monstrosa (Chimaera; Ghost shark; King of the herring; Rabbit fish; Rabbit fish(Rat-tail; Rabbitfish; Rabbit-fish; Rat fish; Ratfish; Rattail; Sea rat)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Chimaera monstrosa, also known as the rabbit fish or rat fish, is a northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean species of fish in the Chimaeridae family.
View Wikipedia Record: Chimaera monstrosa

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Chimaera monstrosa

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.031 lbs (1.375 kg)
Female Maturity [1]  11 years 5 months
Litter Size [1]  22
Maximum Longevity [1]  29 years
Migration [2]  Oceanodromous

Prey / Diet

Predators

Istiophorus platypterus (Atlantic sailfish)[3]
Rachycentron canadum (Sergent fish)[3]

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Feeding habits and trophic levels of Mediterranean fish, Konstantinos I. Stergiou & Vasiliki S. Karpouzi, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 11: 217–254, 2002
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 6Pollerspöck, 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