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Current accepted name |
Yes |
Status |
Accepted name |
Status details |
senior synonym, original combination |
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Comment |
A pending revision may recognize only one wide-ranging species, C. callorynchus, rather than the traditionally accepted 3 species (B. Marquadt, pers. comm., 10/02). |
Etymology of generic noun from ETYFish |
Tautonymous with Chimaera callorynchus Linnaeus 1758 (but unnecessarily emended from -rynchus to -rhinchus: callum (L.), hard skin; rhynchus (L.), snout, referring to peculiar hoe-shaped proboscis. (See ETYFish) |
Etymology of specific epithet from ETYFish |
In honor of Bory de Saint-Vincent’s “old friend” (translation) Pierre Bernard Milius (1773‒1829), a French naval officer, naturalist and civil servant, who supplied specimen upon which description and its accompanying illustration (shown here) were based; (See ETYFish) |
Link to references |
References using the name as accepted |
Link to other databases |
Note: ETYFish and FishBase started a collaboration to complete the etymology for all valid names of fishes. For the current update, the following groups were completed: hagfishes (Myxini), lampreys (Petromyzonti), chimaeras (Holocephali), and sharks (Squalomorphi). It is a work in progress, so the two websites may not be synchronized.
Scharpf, C. The ETYFish Project, Fish Name Etymology Database. https://www.etyfish.org
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