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Mitsukurinidae

Biscoito, Manuel;Ribeiro, Cláudia;Freitas, Mafalda

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Mitsukurinidae

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Mitsukurinidae is a family of sharks with one living genus, Mitsukurina, and four fossil genera: Anomotodon, Protoscapanorhynchus, Scapanorhynchus, and Woellsteinia, though some taxonomists consider Scapanorhynchus to be a synonym of Mitsukurina. The only known living species is the goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni.

Species

goblin shark

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassElasmobranchii
  4. OrderLamniformes
  5. FamilyMitsukurinidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded4,101

Los mitsukurínidos (Mitsukurinidae) es una familia de elasmobranquio del orden Lamniformes​ que cuenta con una única especie viviente: el tiburón duende (Mitsukurina owstoni).​

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
17
With media
1
Family
Mitsukurinidae
Collections
SDSM, UCMP, UCM, YPM, UWYO
Recorded in
United States
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Lamniformes
Image
Mistukurina owstoni museum victoria.jpg
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topic's main category
Category:Mitsukurinidae
taxon name
Mitsukurinidae
taxon rank
family
Commons category
Mitsukurinidae
start time
146000000-
taxon common name
nesehaifamilien
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Geographic range
  • Behavior
  • References

Mitsukurinidae is a family of sharks with one living genus, Mitsukurina, and four fossil genera: Anomotodon, Protoscapanorhynchus, Scapanorhynchus, and Woellsteinia, though some taxonomists consider Scapanorhynchus to be a synonym of Mitsukurina. The only known living species is the goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni.

This family of sharks is named in honour of Kakichi Mitsukuri who brought the holotype of the family's type species to David Starr Jordan to be scientifically described.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mitsukurinidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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