''Chimaera supapae'', the Andaman shortnose chimaera, is a type of chimaera of the family

Chimaeridae The Chimaeridae, or short-nosed chimaeras, are a family (biology), family of cartilaginous fish. They resemble other Chimaeriformes, chimaeras in general form and habits, but have short, rounded snouts, without the modifications found in relate ...

discovered exclusively in the

Andaman Sea The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated f ...

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

. It is described from just one single specimen collected at around 775 m depth.

Description

This

benthic The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The name comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning "the depths". ...

species is distinguishable from its congeners from several characteristics, including short snout, massive head, relatively large eyes, horizontally oval, slender long body trunk 40% body length, slightly convex-shaped posterior margin of the pectoral fins, and dark brown-colored body with no stripes or spots. The only specimen ever caught is a non-adult male which has a maximum total length of 50.8 cm.

Distribution & habitat

Although being caught at 772-775 m depth in the Andaman Sea, there are still no details of its exact habitat's range or depth.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q125149187 supapae Fish described in 2024 Fish of Thailand