Chimaeras
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 30 chimaera specimens, which are mostly preserved in spirit. These date from 1975 to 1978.
This collection includes juvenile and adult fish and some dried egg cases. Only about half the specimens have full data associated with them. These are all from deep water to the west of Scotland in the north-east Atlantic. Several were collected around Anton Dohrn Deep, Great Sole Bank, Hebridean Terrace and Porcupine Bank during cruises by the research vessels RSS Challenger and Walther Herwig in the 1970s.
About chimaeras
Chimaeras (the order Chimaeriformes) live around the ocean floor. They are also called ghost sharks, rat fish or rabbit fish. They are closely related to sharks and rays, and like them have a cartilaginous skeleton and a smooth skin without scales. - Broader term
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