affinis, Chimaera de Brito Capello [F.] 1868:314, Pl. 3 (fig. 1) [Jornal do Sciências Mathemáticas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa v. 1 (no. 4) (for Dec. 1867); ref. 718] Setubal, Portugal. Holotype (unique): type lost in fire. Also in French in Brito Capello 1868:320 [ref. 17965]. •Valid as Hydrolagus affinis (de Brito Capello 1868) -- (Krefft 1973:79 [ref. 7166], Stehmann & Bürkel in Whitehead et al. 1984:214 [ref. 13675], Scott & Scott 1988:63 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:27 [ref. 14674], Krefft 1990:112 [ref. 19321], Hardy & Stehmann 1990:239 [ref. 16629], Nakaya in Okamura et al. 1995:46 [ref. 22531], see Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:viii [ref. 21953], Didier 1995:15 [ref. 22713], McEachran in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:22 [ref. 26158], Moore et al. 2003:166 [ref. 27076], Møller et al. 2004:58 [ref. 27739], Moura et al. 2005:743 [ref. 28380], Møller et al. 2010:18 [ref. 31169], Luchetti et al. 2011:400 [ref. 31442], Kemper et al. 2015:45 [ref. 34214] as cf. affinis, Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:29 [ref. 37485], Afonso et al. 2016:11, 172 [ref. 36199], Bañón et al. 2016:303 [ref. 34397], Didier 2016:1455 [ref. 34546], Nión et al. 2016:19 [ref. 35565], Weigmann 2016:166 [ref. 34211], Walovich et al. 2017:517 [ref. 35113], Biscoito et al. 2018:483 [ref. 37562], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:36 [ref. 37302], Carneiro et al. 2019:54 [ref. 37250], Ebert et al. 2021:103 [ref. 38234], Bañón & Mano 2022:17 [ref. 40121], Simian et al. 2022:374 [ref. 40776], Carvalho-Filho 2023:289 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:48 [ref. 40505], Séret & Quod 2023:4 [ref. 40565], Leeney 2024:94 [ref. 40985]). Current status: Valid as Hydrolagus affinis (de Brito Capello 1868). Chimaeridae. Distribution: North Atlantic; southwestern Atlantic: Brazil; southeastern Atlantic, southweastern Indian Ocean: Namibia, South Africa, Mayotte and La Réunion (western Mascarenes); Pacific. Habitat: marine.