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Hexanchidae

Description

Family Hexanchidae

Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) —Bluntnose sixgill shark

14 specimens were caught at depths between 682 and 1,035 m. Length data were available for eight females from 130 to 355 cm and one male of 73 cm TL. Habitat and Distribution: deep-water demersal species inhabiting the outer continental shelves, upper continental slopes, insular shelves and slopes, and submarine canyons down to at least 2,500 m depth. Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas, including the Mediterranean, Baltic and North Seas, and the Hawaiian Islands. Vulnerability: NT (IUCN), VHV (FishBase).

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Published as part of Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), pp. 293-333 in Zootaxa 4067 (3) on page 297, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256670

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Biodiversity

Family
Hexanchidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hexanchiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
family