The chimaeras are characterized by having tooth plates in their mouths for crushing hard food and a dorsal spine with a venom sac at its base. They are found in deep subarctic and Antarctic waters and are an evolutionary backwater.
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- Chimaera: Hydrolagus affinis Drawing and description of this curiously shaped fish and details of its range.
- Chimaera Information from Wikipedia and several photographs of this fish, sometimes known as the ratfish, rabbitfish or ghost shark, and details of the six genera in three families.
- Australian Ghost Shark Photograph and information on this fish, Callorhinchus milii, which is known as the elephant fish in Australia and New Zealand where it is found.
- Spotted Ratfish Photographs and information from Wikipedia on this interesting species, Hydrolagus colliei, which gets its name from its pointed rat-like tail.
- Spotted Ratfish: Hydrolagus colliei Two clear photographs of this species from Cold Water Images.
- Chimaeroids Painting by Roy Troll of Hydrolagis trolli, a newly named species, and information on the fossil remains of ratfish from the Smoky Hill Chalk.
- Hydrolagus colliei (Spotted Ratfish) Images of a preserved specimen of this species, including an enlargement of the tooth plates.