Hydrolagus is a genus of fish in the family Chimaeridae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Species
The 22 recognized species in this genus are:
- Hydrolagus affinis <small>(Brito Capello (), 1868)</small> (small-eyed rabbitfish)
- Hydrolagus africanus <small>(Gilchrist, 1922)</small> (African chimaera)
- Hydrolagus alberti <small>Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951</small> (gulf chimaera)
- Hydrolagus alphus <small>Quaranta, Didier, Long & Ebert, 2006</small> (whitespot ghost shark)
- Hydrolagus barbouri <small>(Garman, 1908)</small> (ninespot chimaera)
- Hydrolagus bemisi <small>Didier, 2002</small> (pale ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus colliei <small>(G. T. Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839)</small> (spotted ratfish)
- Hydrolagus eidolon <small>D. S. Jordan & C. L. Hubbs, 1925</small> (Niji Chimaera)
- Hydrolagus erithacus <small>Walovich, Ebert & Kemper, 2017</small> (Robin's ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus homonycteris <small>Didier, 2008</small> (black ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus lusitanicus <small>T. Moura, I. M. R. Figueiredo, Bordalo-Machado, A. C. Almeida & Serrano-Gordo, 2005</small> (Portuguese chimaera)
- Hydrolagus macrophthalmus <small>F. de Buen, 1959</small> (bigeye chimaera)
- Hydrolagus marmoratus <small>Didier, 2008</small> (marbled ghost shark)
- Hydrolagus matallanasi <small>Soto & Vooren, 2004</small> (striped rabbitfish)
- Hydrolagus mccoskeri <small>L. A. K. Barnett, Didier, Long & Ebert, 2006</small> (Galápagos ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus melanophasma <small>K. C. James, Ebert, Long & Didier, 2009</small> (Eastern Pacific black ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus mirabilis <small>(Collett, 1904)</small> (large-eyed rabbitfish)
- Hydrolagus mitsukurii <small>(D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1904)</small> (Mitsukuri's chimaera)
- Hydrolagus novaezealandiae <small>(Fowler, 1911)</small> (dark ghostshark)
- Hydrolagus pallidus <small>Hardy & Stehmann, 1990</small> (pale chimaera)
- Hydrolagus purpurescens <small>(C. H. Gilbert, 1905)</small> (purple chimaera)
- Hydrolagus trolli <small>Didier & Séret (), 2002</small> (abyssal ghostshark)
Fossil remains of the genus are known from the Miocene and Pliocene of California.
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