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Pseudocarcharias kamoharai
Description
* Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara, 1936).
Crocodile Shark. To at least 122 cm (48 in) TL (Ebert et al. 2013). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); two records within our range, about 200 km off Punta Eugenia, southern Baja California (26°52’N, 116°59’W) (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2010), and further southward 960 km off southern Baja California (25°40’N, 129°00’W) (Long and Seigel 1997); Colombia – Chile (Ebert 2016). Depth: surface to 1,740 m (5,707 ft) (Pradeep et al. 2017).
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
- Pseudocarchariidae
- Genus
- Pseudocarcharias
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lamniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Matsubara
- Species
- kamoharai
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara, 1936) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Ruiz-Campos, G., Castro-Aguirre, J. L., Balart, E. F., Campos-Davila, L. & Velez-Marin, R. (2010) New specimens and records of chondrichthyan fishes (Vertebrata: Chondrichthyes) off the Mexican Pacific coast. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 81, 363 - 371.
- Long, D. J. & Seigel, J. A. (1997) A crocodile shark, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai, (Selachii: Lamnidae) from pelagic waters off Baja California, Mexico. Oceanides, 12, 61 - 63.
- Ebert, D. A. (2016) Deep-sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Southeastern Pacific Ocean. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes, No. 10. Rome, FAO.
- Pradeep, H. D., Swapnil, S. S., Ramachandran, S. & Pattnayak, S. K. (2017) Report of the crocodile shark Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara, 1936) from deep waters of the Andaman Sea. Marine Biodiversity, 47, 535 - 538.