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Lamna nasus

Description

Lamna nasus

Fresh material: 3 specimens, ERB 0 928, male, 1620 mm TL, 21 September 2007, La Rochelle fish market, France, northeast Atlantic Ocean; ERB 0 929, male, 1740 mm TL, same date and provenance; ERB 0 930, male, 1660 mm TL, same date and provenance.

Additional material: 5 dried chondrocrania, IRScNB 476 and IRScNB 2189β, juvenile specimens, sex, no data; IRScNB 1352β, subadult specimen, male, length unknown, Belgium, North Sea; IRScNB 1353, adult specimen, no data; IRScNB 2189, juvenile specimen, no data, Nice, France, Mediterranean.

Additional illustrations: Parker (1887, pl. 4, figs. 2, 4; pl. 5, unnumbered fig. (lower part of plate only), Garman (1913, pl. 62, figs. 1–3); Block & Carey (1985, fig. 4A–B), Chevrier (1986, p. 6, unnumbered figs.), Compagno (1990, figs. 5N, 6M, 7N; non fig. 6N, mislabelled), Goto (1996, fig. 5D), Wilga (2005, fig. 3C), and Mollen (2010, fig. 4A–B; pls 1–3).

Notes

Published as part of Mollen, Frederik H., Wintner, Sabine P., Iglésias, Samuel P., Van, Sean R. & Jagt, John W. M., 2012, Comparative morphology of rostral cartilages in extant mackerel sharks (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes, Lamnidae) using CT scanning, pp. 29-43 in Zootaxa 3340 on page 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.215285

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Lamnidae
Genus
Lamna
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lamniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Species
nasus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Parker, T. J. (1887) Notes on Carcharodon rondeletii. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, 1887, 27 - 41, 5 pls.
  • Garman, S. (1913) The Plagiostomia (sharks, skates, and rays). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 36, xiii + 515 pp., 77 pls.
  • Block, B. A. & Carey, F. G. (1985) Warm brain and eye temperatures in sharks. Journal of Comparative Physiology, B 156, 229 - 236.
  • Chevrier, F. (1986) Requins actuels et requins des faluns. Famille des Isurides. Groupe des Geologues amateurs du F. L. E. R. C., Tours, 48 pp.
  • Compagno, L. J. V. (1990) Relationships of the megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae), with comments on its feeding habits. In: Pratt, H. L., Gruber, S. H. & Taniuchi, T. (Eds), Elasmobranchs as living resources: advances in the biology, ecology, systematics, and the status of the fisheries. NOAA Technical report NMFS, 90, 357 - 379.
  • Goto, T. (1996) Phylogenetic relationships of galeomorph sharks - elucidation of higher-level systematics. Kaiyo Monthly 28, 338 - 345 (in Japanese).
  • Wilga, C. D. (2005) Morphology and evolution of the jaw suspension in lamniform sharks. Journal of Morphology, 265, 102 - 119.
  • Mollen, F. H. (2010) A partial rostrum of the porbeagle shark Lamna nasus (Lamniformes, Lamnidae) from the Miocene of the North Sea Basin and the taxonomic importance of rostral morphology in extinct sharks. Geologica Belgica, 13, 61 - 76.