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Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean, 1895

Pacific longnose chimaera
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Common names: Longnose spookefish, Longnose spookfish, Longnosed chimaera
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: fairly common (chances are about 50%) | Ref: Doonan, I.J., M. Dunn and A.C. Hart, 2009
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: First record in the Chathams Island (Ref. 45493); rare to fairly common in the Northeastern and Eastern Chatham Rise (Ref. 87166). Recorded from bottom trawls off the east coast of South Island (Ref. 58461). Occasionally caught (Ref. 6871). Voucher specimen(s) held at the NMNZ (Ref. 5755). Also Ref. 4444.
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/nz.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.fish.govt.nz/
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Cox, G. and M. Francis, 1997
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Smallspine spookfish, Chimère à nez rigide, Widenose chimaera, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Holocephali (chimaeras) > Chimaeriformes (Chimaeras) > Rhinochimaeridae (Longnose chimaeras)
Etymology: Harriotta: [an]a- (L.), belonging to: per Goode & Bean (1896), in honor of Thomas Harriott (ca. 1560‒1621), English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator, who published the first English work on American natural history (1588). (See ETYFish);  raleighana: In honor of Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1554‒1618), “philosopher and explorer, by whom the first English scientific expedition was sent to the New World” (Raleigh funded a 1585 expedition to Roanoke Island, North Carolina, with Thomas Harriott [honored in the (See ETYFish).
  More on authors: Goode & Bean.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 200 - 3100 m (Ref. 117245), usually 500 - 2000 m (Ref. 97389).   Deep-water; 65°N - 49°S, 121°W - 179°E

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