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Isistius brasiliensis
Description
Isistius brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824).
Cookiecutter Shark. To at least 56 cm (22 in) TL (Weigmann 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Hokkaido, Japan (Ebert et al. 2013); documented as far north as San Nicolas Island, southern California, and probably at least as far north as Año Nuevo, central California (Ebert et al. 2015) to Peru (13°46’S) (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface to 3,700 m (12,136 ft) (min.: Compagno 2002; max.: Retzger 1990).
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 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Dalatiidae
- Genus
- Isistius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Quoy & Gaimard
- Species
- brasiliensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Isistius brasiliensis (Quoy, 1824) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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
- Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.
- Ebert, D. A., Pien, C. & Kamikawa, D. J. (2015) Confirmation of the cookiecutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, from the eastern North Pacific Ocean (Squaliformes: Dalatiidae). Marine Biodiversity Records, 8, e 118, 1 - 3. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / s 1755267215000962
- Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Compagno, L. J. V. (2002) Dalatiidae. Kitefin sharks. FAO Species Identification Sheets for Fishery Purposes. Western Central Atlantic. FAO, Rome, Part 1, pp. 410 - 414.
- Retzger, M. E. (1990) New records and range extensions of twelve species of fishes in the Gulf of Mexico. Northeast Gulf Science, 11, 137 - 142.