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First record of the crocodile shark in deep sea trawl landings at Chennai

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16211/
http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/8360/
 
Title First record of the crocodile shark in deep sea trawl landings at
Chennai
 
Creator Kizhakudan, Shoba Joe
 
Subject New record
Shark fisheries
Marine Fisheries
 
Description A single specimen of the crocodile
shark Pseudocarcharias kamoharai
(Matsubara, 1936) was collected from
the deep sea trawl landings at Chennai
Fisheries Harbour on 10.02.2011. The
species is the only representative of the
family Pseudocarchariidae and is the
smallest known living mackerel shark
(Order: Lamniformes). Known to be
circumtropical in distribution, with its
range extending from Eastern Atlantic
Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
 
Publisher ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2011
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16211/1/CMFRI_NL_2011_128_7.pdf
Kizhakudan, Shoba Joe (2011) First record of the crocodile shark in deep sea trawl landings at Chennai. CMFRI Newsletter Cadalmin (128). p. 7.