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First report of the crocodile shark Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara,1936)from Chennai, southeast coast of India

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Title First report of the crocodile shark
Pseudocarcharias kamoharai
(Matsubara,1936)from Chennai, southeast
coast of India
 
Creator Kizhakudan, Shoba Joe
Rajapackiam, S
 
Subject New record
Shark fisheries
 
Description This paper reports the occurrence of the crocodile shark
Pseudocarcharias kamoharai in the waters off Chennai in the
south-east coast of India and is a new locality record for the
species, confirming its distribution in the Bay of Bengal. P.
kamoharai is the only representative of the family
Pseudocarchariidae and is the smallest known living mackerel
shark (Order: Lamniformes). A single adult male specimen
measuring 91 cm in total length and weighing 2.2 kg weight
was collected from the landings by a deep sea trawler at
Chennai Fisheries Harbour, caught in hook and line operations
for yellow-fin tuna in the waters off the Chennai – Puducherry
coast, at a depth of 300 m. Reported to occur as by-catch in
Japanese yellow fin tuna long line fishery and Australian
swordfish fishery, both in the Indian Ocean, it has been classified
as “Near Threatened” by IUCN.
 
Publisher Marine Biological Association of India
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9575/1/Article-14.pdf
Kizhakudan, Shoba Joe and Rajapackiam, S (2013) First report of the crocodile shark Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara,1936)from Chennai, southeast coast of India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 55 (1). pp. 86-88.