Hydolagus trolli or the pointy nosed blue ratfish/chimera was first named in 2002 and known to inhabit the deep waters surrounding Australia, New Zeland and New Caledonia. However in 2009, researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute worked with scientists at the California Academy of Sciences and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories to provide evidence of the first Northern Hemisphere sighting of the species in the Gulf of California. A hauntingly beautiful creature that has gone largely unnoticed in the deep ocean!
See the original article:
Reichert, A. N., Lundsten, L., & EBERT, D. A. (2016). First North Pacific records of the pointy nosed blue chimaera, Hydrolagus cf. trolli (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae). Marine Biodiversity Records, 1–5. http://doi.org/10.1186/s41200-016-0095-5
