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Notorynchus cepedianus
Description
Notorynchus cepedianus (Péron, 1807).
Broadnose Sevengill Shark or Sevengill Shark.To 2.96 m (9.7 ft) TL (Ebert 1989); there are no authenticated records larger than this (David Ebert, pers. comm. to M.L.). Circumglobal in temperate waters; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hattoka in Nakabo 2002): south-eastern Alaska (Pietsch and Orr 2019) to southern Baja California and Colombia to Chile (Allen and Robertson 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Buglass et al. 2020). Depth: less than 1 m (3 ft) to 570 m (1,870 ft) (min.: Compagno 1984; max.: Weigmann 2016). The modifier broadnose was added to the common name by Compagno (1999).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hexanchidae
- Genus
- Notorynchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hexanchiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Peron
- Species
- cepedianus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Notorynchus cepedianus (Peron, 1807) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Ebert, D. A. (1989) Life history of the sevengill shark, Notorynchus cepedianus Peron, in two northern California bays. California Fish and Game, 75, 102 - 112.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Pietsch, T. W. & Orr, J. W. (2019) Fishes of the Salish Sea. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Buglass, S., Nagy, S., Ebert, D., Sepa, P., Turchik, A., Bell, K. L. C., Rivera, F. & Giddens, J. (2020) First records of the sevengilled Notorynchus cepedianus and six-gilled Hexanchus griseus sharks (Chondrichthyes: Hexanchiformes: Hexanchidae) found in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. Journal of Fish Biology, 97, 926 - 929.
- Compagno, L. J. V. (1984) FAO Species Catalogue. Volume 4. Sharks of the World. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. Part 2. Carcharhiniformes. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125, Volume 4, Parts 1 and 2. FAO, Rome.
- 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
- Compagno, L. J. V. (1999) Checklist of living elasmobranchs. In: Hamlett, W. C. (Ed.), Sharks, Skates, and Rays. The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 471 - 498