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Neoharriotta pinnata (Sicklefin chimaera)
(Schnakenbeck, 1931)
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Neoharriotta pinnata (Sicklefin chimaera) [Illustration
by Ann Hecht ©] |
Identification
A dark brown longnose chimaera with a narrow,
slightly flattened snout, blunt-edged, ridged tooth plates short,
broad pectoral fins, a large curved anal fin, and a caudal fin
without tubercles on its upper edge and a short terminal filament.
Size
To about 1.3 m TL.
Range
West coast, from Walvis Bay,
Namibia, north to the Angolan border; elsewhere north to the Gulf of
Guinea.
Habitat
Deepish water of the upper slope, on or near the
bottom in water 200 to 470 m. deep.
Biology
Uncommon. Eats swimming
crabs, lays large spindle-shaped eggs.
Human Impact
Probably
regularly caught by offshore hake trawlers.
Text by Leonard J.V. Compagno, David A. Ebert
and Malcolm J. Smale
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