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Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno, & Struhsaker 1983
Description
Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno, & Struhsaker, 1983.
Megamouth Shark. To 7.1 m (23.3 ft)TL (Watanabe and Papastamatiou 2019). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Japan (Ebert et al. 2013); Hawai’i (Ebert et al. 2013); southern California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995); off Punta Eugenia, Baja California (Castillo-Géniz et al. 2012); Peru (Kelez et al. 2020). Depth: 8–1,000 m (26–3,280 ft) (min.: Ebert et al. 2013; max.: Weigmann 2016), and as shallow as 5 m (16 ft) in benthic, coastal waters (Ebert et al. 2013).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Megachasmidae
- Genus
- Megachasma
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lamniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Taylor, Compagno, & Struhsaker
- Species
- pelagios
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megachasma pelagios Taylor, 1983 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Watanabe, Y. Y. & Papastamatiou, Y. P. (2019) Distribution, body size and biology of the megamouth shark Megachasma pelagios. Journal of Fish Biology, 95, 992 - 998. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 14007
- Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Castillo-Geniz, J. L., Ocampo-Torres, A. I., Shimada, K., Rigsby, C. K. & Nicholas, A. C. (2012) Juvenile megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios, caught off the Pacific coast of Mexico, and its significance to chondrichthyan diversity in Mexico. Ciencias Marinas, 38, 467 - 474. https: // doi. org / 10.7773 / cm. v 38 i 2.2071
- Kelez, S., Napuri, R. M., Pfennig, A. M., Martinez, O. C. & Carrasco, A. T. (2020) First reports of megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno & Struhsaker, 1983 (Lamniformes, Megachasmidae), in Peru. Check List, 16, 1361 - 1367. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 16.5.1361
- Weigmann, S. (2016) Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 837 - 1037. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12874