Plunket shark
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| Plunket shark | |
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| Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Proscymnodon |
| Species: | P. plunketi |
| Binomial name | |
| Proscymnodon plunketi (Waite, 1910) |
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| Range of the Plunket shark (in blue) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Centroscymnus plunketi |
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The plunket shark, Proscymnodon 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.
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Proscymnodon plunketi" in FishBase. February 2011 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
- Paul, L. 2003. Proscymnodon plunketi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 3 August 2007.
