Chimaeridae

Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia & Freitas, Mafalda, 2018, Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes, Zootaxa 4429 (3), pp. 459-494 : 487

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.