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Mount Chimaera was the name of a place in ancient Lycia, notable for constantly burning fires. It is thought to be the area called Yanartaş in Turkey, where methane and other gases, such as hydrogen , [ 1 ] emerge from the rock and burn.
According to Greek mythology, [1] the Chimera, Chimaera, Chimæra, or Khimaira (/ k aɪ ˈ m ɪər ə, k ɪ-/ ky-MEER-ə, kih-; Ancient Greek: Χίμαιρα, romanized: Chímaira, lit. 'she-goat') [ 2 ] was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature from Lycia , Asia Minor , composed of different animal parts.
Hydrolagus pallidus Hardy & Stehmann, 1990 (Pale chimaera) Hydrolagus purpurescens C. H. Gilbert, 1905 (Purple chimaera) Hydrolagus trolli Didier & Séret, 2002 (Pointy-nosed blue chimaera) Family Rhinochimaeridae (Long-nosed chimaeras) Genus Harriotta. Harriotta haeckeli Karrer, 1972 (Smallspine spookfish) Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean ...
Deep-sea chimaera photographed by the NOAAS Okeanos Explorer.Visible on its snout are tiny pores which lead to electroreceptor cells.. Chimaeras are soft-bodied, shark-like fish with bulky heads and long, tapered tails; measured from the tail, they can grow up to 150 cm (4.9 ft) in length.
Holocephali ("complete heads"), sometimes given the name Euchondrocephali, is a subclass of cartilaginous fish in the class Chondrichthyes. [1] The earliest fossils are of teeth and come from the Devonian period.
The silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma), or ginzame, is a species of holocephalan in the family Chimaeridae. They are found in the deep sea along the coast of East Asia, from Japan to Indonesia . They are chondrichthyans , closely related to sharks and rays , which means that they have a fully cartilaginous skeleton with no true bones.
Callorhinchus callorynchus Linnaeus, 1758 (Ploughnose chimaera, American elephantfish, or cockfish) Callorhinchus capensis A. H. A. Duméril, 1865 (Cape elephantfish) Callorhinchus milii Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1823 (Australian ghostshark) A number of fossil species are also known, extending back into the mid-Cretaceous . [16]
The chimaera is a marine species, typically found on slanted and flat areas of deep oceans at the continental slope, sometimes extending into the bathyal zone. It has a broad depth range, occurring in waters 400 metres (1,300 ft) – 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) in depth, typically in the deeper part of this range. [ 5 ]