Biology:Plunket shark

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Short description: Species of fish

Plunket shark
Centroscymnus plunketi (Plunket shark).gif
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Subdivision: Selachimorpha
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Somniosidae
Genus: Scymnodon
Species:
S. plunketi
Binomial name
Scymnodon plunketi
Waite, 1910
Proscymnodon plunketi distmap.png
Range of the plunket shark (in blue)
Synonyms
  • Centroscymnus plunketi Waite, 1910
  • Proscymnodon plunketi Waite, 1910

The plunket shark or Plunket's shark (Scymnodon plunketi) is a sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found around south eastern Australia , and New Zealand, at depths of between 220 and 1,550 m over continental shelves. It reaches a length of 130 cm.[2]

References

  1. Finucci, B.; Kyne, P.M. (2018). "Scymnodon plunketi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T46865A68641556. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T46865A68641556.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/46865/68641556. Retrieved 18 November 2021. 
  2. White, W.T., Vaz, D.F.B., Ho, H.-C., Ebert, D.A., Carvalho, M.R.d., Corrigan, S., Rochel, E., Carvalho, M.d., Tanaka, S. & Naylor, G.J.P. (2014): Redescription of Scymnodon ichiharai Yano and Tanaka 1984 (Squaliformes: Somniosidae) from the western North Pacific, with comments on the definition of somniosid genera. Ichthyological Research, 62 (2): 213-229.

Wikidata ☰ Q577025 entry