Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan 1898
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Lamniformes
- family
- Mitsukurinidae
- genus
- Mitsukurina
- species
- Mitsukurina owstoni
description
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).
Name
- Homonyms
- Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan 1898