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

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 103

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).