Plunket shark

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

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References

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  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.
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