Chimaeridae
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The Chimaeridae, or short-nosed chimaeras, are a family of cartilaginous fish.
Hydrolagus alberti
A Chimaeridae fish and deepwater mussels at edge of a brine pool.
Brine pool
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A brine pool, sometimes called an underwater lake, deepwater lake or brine lake, is a volume of brine collected in a seafloor depression. These pools are dense bodies of water that have a salinity tha
Chimaeridae
…Holocephali Order: Chimaeriformes Family: Chimaeridae Bonaparte, 1831 Genera Chimaera Hydrolagus A Chimaeridae fish and deepwater mussels at edge of a brine pool. The Chimaeridae, or short-nosed chimaeras, are a family of cartilaginous fish. They resemble other chimaeras in general form and habits, but have…
These craters mark the formation of brine pools where salt has seeped through the sea floor and encrusted the nearby substrate.
NOAA rendering of a brine pool in the Gulf of Mexico
Distribution of deep hypersaline anoxic basins (DHABs) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea