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Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan 1898
Description
Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898.
Goblin Shark. Maximum measured size is 4.10 m (13.45 ft) TL (Kukuev 1982); however, a photo of a specimen from the Gulf of Mexico was estimated at 5.40–6.17 m (17.12–20.24 ft) (Parsons et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Honshu, Japan (Aonuma and Yoshino in Nakabo 2002); San Clemente Island, southern California (Ugoretz and Seigel 1999). Depth: surface to 1,300 m (4,264 ft) (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
- Mitsukurinidae
- Genus
- Mitsukurina
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lamniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan
- Species
- owstoni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Jordan, D. S. & Evermann, B. W. (1898) The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fishlike vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama, Parts II and III. Bulletin of National Museum.
- Kukuev, E. I. (1982) Ichthyofauna of Corner Mountains and New England Seamounts. Insufficiently Studied Fishes of the Open Ocean. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow.
- Parsons, G. R., Ingram Jr, G. W. & Havard, R. (2002) First record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni, Jordan (Family Mitsukurnidae) in the Gulf of Mexico. Southeastern Naturalist, 1, 89 - 192. https: // doi. org / 10.1656 / 1528 - 7092 (2002) 001 [0189: frotgs] 2.0. co; 2
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Ugoretz, J. K. & Seigel, J. A. (1999) First eastern Pacific record of the goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni (Lamniformes: Mitsukurinidae). California Fish and Game, 85, 118 - 120.
- Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.