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Callorhinchidae (Plownose chimaeras)
Species Currently in the DFL
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About This Family
Distribution:
Southern Hemisphere: (southern South America, New Zealand, southern Australia, and southern Africa)
Habitat:
Marine, continental and insular shelves and uppermost slopes.
Remarks:
Plownose chimaeras, also known as elephant chimaeras, have a distinctive elongate, flexible, hook-like snout, resembling the head of an elephant. Chimeras have small eyes and a tail with a long upper lobe and a shorter lower lobe.
The family consists of one genus, Callorhinchus, with three species.
References: Nelson 2006