Sixgill sawshark
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| Sixgill sawshark Temporal range: 23–0 Ma Miocene to Present[1] |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Pristiophoriformes |
| Family: | Pristiophoridae |
| Genus: | Pliotrema |
| Species: | P. warreni |
| Binomial name | |
| Pliotrema warreni Regan, 1906 |
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| Range of sixgill sawshark shark (in blue) | |
The sixgill sawshark, Pliotrema warreni, the only member of the genus Pliotrema, is a sawshark of the family Pristiophoridae, found in the subtropical waters of the western Indian Ocean between latitudes 23° S and 37° S, at depths of between 60 and 430 m. Its length is up to about 1.7 m.
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[edit] References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=575&rank=class. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Pliotrema warreni" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
