American Elephantfish

Callorhinchus callorynchus (Linnaeus 1758)

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Callorhinchus callorynchus (American Elephantfish) is a species of vertebrates in the family plownose chimaeras.

EOL has data for 19 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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70 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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south Atlantic
- URI: http://www.marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=details&id=1914
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habitat
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/habitat
- Definition: A category or description of the habitat in which the Event occurred.
- Comment: Example: "oak savanna", "pre-cordilleran steppe"
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marine
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000569
- Definition: A habitat that is in or on a sea or ocean containing high concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids (typically >35 grams dissolved salts per litre).
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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coastal
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000687
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harvested in
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/harvested_in
- Definition: This organism is caught or collected, and put to human use, in the following region(s)
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Uruguay
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/3439705
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Callorhynchicola branchialis Brinkmann 1952
has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Gyrocotyle rugosa Diesing 1850
population trend
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/population_trend
- Definition: i.e., increasing, decreasing, stable, or unknown
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Unknown
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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600 m
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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3.179 degrees celsius

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of American Elephantfish. View this species on GBIF

Nicolas Olejnik cc-by-nc-4.0