Chimaera monstrosa Linnaeus 1758

• Main Authors: Bariche, Michel, Fricke, Ronald
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Holocephali; Chimaeriformes; Chimaeridae; Chimaera; Chimaera monstrosa; Greenland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4346633; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/6E2F87D6FF9CFFCFFF2EFD64FEA3FF6D

Chimaera monstrosa Linnaeus 1758 —Rabbit fish Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Chimera monstrosa and Chimoera monstrosa , L. by Gruvel (1931: 73, 77); subsequently recorded as Chimaera monstrosa Linnaeus 1758 by George et al. (1964: 11); as Chimaera monstrosa Linnaeus by Mouneimné (1977: 61); as Chimaera monstrosa Linnaeus 1758 by Mouneimné (2002: 67); recently recorded as Chimaera monstrosa by Aguillar et al. (2018: 80). Distribution. Greenland, western Baltic Sea, northern North Sea, Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Norway to Morocco, Madeira and Azores. Conservation. IUCN: Global (NT: 1 March 2007); Med. (NT: 25 March 2016). Capture and threats: FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. Low priority for conservation action. Anguilliformes Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 31, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887