Rabbit fish

Scientific name: Chimaera monstrosa

Officially approvedEntity code: ENT-0585Males and females look different

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Structure

The male rabbit fish carries on its forehead a clasping organ that is probably used to hold on to the female during mating.

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The common chimaera has about 700 pores of electroreceptive ampullae of Lorenzini, spread over the whole head and arranged in 12 clusters.

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1Chimaera monstrosa, Rabbit fish : fisheriesSRC-DSC-327E777A7A
2Sixth sense in the deep-sea: the electrosensory system in ghost shark Chimaera monstrosaSRC-DSC-07FEC6BC6D
3Genetic diversity and phylogeography of Chimaera monstrosa (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Mediterranean Sea: insights from COI mitochondrial DNA analysisSRC-DSC-5764F56441