African chimaera

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African chimaera (Hydrolagus africanus) is a deep-water fish in the Chimaeridae family. Its conservation status is Least Concern (IUCN 3.1). It lives in deep waters up to 750 meters, in the western Indian Ocean and southeastern Atlantic off eastern and southern Africa.

Geographic range and habitat:
- Found near Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, and South Africa.
- Distributed from Kenya and Mozambique to the Western Cape of South Africa, and along the west coast of South Africa up to Angola.

In southern Africa, there are eight chimaera species across three families and six genera. There have also been reports of Hydrolagus africanus from places like Thailand, the southwest coast of India, the Arabian Sea, and the Andaman Nicobar Islands, but these records are not well established.