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Callorhinchus Lacepède 1798 tautonymous with Chimaera callorynchus Linnaeus 1758 (but unnecessarily emended from –rynchus to –rhinchus: callum (L.), hard skin; rhinchus, from rhýnchos (Gr. ῥύγχος), snout, referring to peculiar hoe-shaped proboscis

Callorhinchus callorynchus (Linnaeus 1758) hard- or thick-snouted, from callum (L.), hard skin, and rhýnchos (Gr. ῥύγχος), snout, referring to peculiar hoe-shaped proboscis

Callorhinchus capensis Duméril 1865 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Cape of Good Hope, type locality

Callorhinchus milii Bory de Saint-Vincent 1823 in honor of Bory de Saint-Vincent’s “old friend” (translation) Pierre Bernard Milius (1773‒1829), a French naval officer, naturalist and civil servant, who supplied specimen upon which description and its accompanying illustration (shown here) were based; they met during Nicolas Baudin’s 1800 Naturalist expedition to map the coast of New Holland (Australia), presumably when specimen was collected