Family Chimaeridae

Chimaera monstrosa Linnaeus, 1758 —Quimera; Rabbit-fish

Maul 1948: 140 | Albuquerque 1954 –56: 189 | Stehmann & Bürkel 1984c: 213 | Sanches 1986: 127 | Lloris et al. 1991: 224 | Carneiro et al. 2014: 16.

Distribution in Macaronesia. Madeira, Azores (Santos et al. 1997; Arruda 1997; Porteiro et al. 2010; Carneiro et al. 2014) and the Canary Islands (López Abellán et al. 1994; Brito et al. 2002; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003).

Remarks. According to Freitas et al. (2017), the presence of this species in the waters of the archipelago of Madeira needs confirmation.