Chimaeras: Strange Fish with a Cartilaginous Skeleton. Chimaera monstrosa is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the western Mediterranean sea. It's sometimes known as a rabbitfish. The fish has brown stripes and blotches on a bluish or greenish background. We would like to show you a description here but the site won Chimaera monstrosa. Hydrolagus affinis. Harriotta raleighana. Family Callorhinchidae Garman, 1901. Genus Callorhinchus Lac. Callorhinchus. The background has a lovely silvery sheen. The tail is very long, even longer than that of the spotted ratfish. The rabbitfish lives in very deep water. It's a poor swimmer and moves by flapping its large pectoral fins, which look almost like bird wings. Like the spotted ratfish, it feeds mainly on hard- shelled prey, which it crushes with its plate- like teeth. Rabbitfish are thought to have a long life expectancy. Preliminary estimates for the lifespan are thirty years for a male and twenty six years for a female, although researchers think that the maximum lifespan is probably longer. The IUCN classifies the rabbitfish in the . Deep water fishing in the Atlantic Ocean is killing rabbitfish, which are caught accidentally by trawlers aiming to catch other fish. In addition, human demand for rabbitfish oil (or ratfish oil) is increasing. The oil is extracted from the livers of rabbitfish and used as a supplement. Buyers of the supplement believe that it has a number of health benefits.
Feeding habits of rabbit fish Chimaera monstrosa (Linnaeus, 1758) in deep waters of the Gulf of Cadiz (SW Spain) M.A.
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