Chimaera notafricana Kemper, Ebert, Compagno, & Didier, 2010

Cape Chimaera

Chimaera notafricana Kemper, Ebert, Compagno, & Didier, 2010: 56, fig. 1. Holotype: SAM 34517. Type locality: Cape Agulhas, South Africa, 34°49'09''S, 20°00'00''E.

Local synonymy: Chimaera monstrosa: Duméril, 1865: 688; Gilchrist, 1902: 162; Thompson, 1914: 166; Gilchrist, 1922b: 51, pl. 8; Barnard, 1925: 94; Fowler, 1936: 143; Fowler, 1941: 489; Barnard, 1947: 30, probably not pl. 5, fig. 3 = C. monstrosa from European seas; Smith, 1949a: 76; Smith, 1965: 76; Compagno, 1986: 144, not fig. 32.1, which is European C. monstrosa . Chimaera vaillanti: Dean, 1906: 7, nomen nudnum. Chimaera sp.: Compagno et al., 1989: 120, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 112; Compagno, 1999: 120. Chimaera notafricana: Kemper et al., 2010: 56, fig. 1; Didier et al., 2012: 100; Ebert, 2014: 94, fig. 147; Ebert, 2015: 196, fig. 222; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 148; Walovich et al., 2015: 163; Weigmann, 2016: 1001.

South Africa voucher material: Holotype: SAM 34517 . Paratypes (4): SAIAB 27132, SAIAB 27133, SAM 34428, SAM 34429 . Non-types: SAIAB 27132, SAIAB 27133, SAIAB 27134, SAIAB 27135, SAIAB 34834, SAIAB 54450 .

South African distribution: The Orange River (NC) to Algoa Bay (EC).

Remarks: A regional endemic occurring from about L̹deritz, Namibia to Algoa Bay (EC). It had previously been referred to as the European C. monstrosa, but it is quite distinct from that species.

Conservation status: LC (2020).