Published December 31, 2012 | Version v1
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Isurus oxyrinchus

Description

Isurus oxyrinchus

Fresh material: 2 specimens, ERB 0 933, female, 1940 mm TL, 20 February 2009, Algeciras fish market, Spain, 29°10’N, 15°20’W, northeast Atlantic Ocean; ERB 0 934, sex unknown (said to be male but unverified), 2300 (+/- 100) mm TL, 26 February 2009, Concarneau fish market, France, northeast Atlantic Ocean.

Additional material: 3 dried chondrocrania, IRScNB 1384γ, IRScNB 2190 and IRScNB 2190β, juvenile specimens, no data, Nice, France, Mediterranean.

Additional illustrations: Matsubara (1955, fig. 15D–F), Glikman (1967, figs. 8–9, 38; 1980, pls 1–4, fig. 2), Compagno (1990, figs. 5K, 6K, 7K), Muñoz-Chápuli & De Andrés (1995, fig. 1C), Compagno (2001, fig. 12A–C), Wilga (2005, fig. 3D), and Shimada et al. (2009, fig. 2C).

Notes

Published as part of Mollen, Frederik H., Wintner, Sabine P., Iglésias, Samuel P., Van, Sean R. & Jagt, John W. M., 2012, Comparative morphology of rostral cartilages in extant mackerel sharks (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes, Lamnidae) using CT scanning, pp. 29-43 in Zootaxa 3340 on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.215285

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Lamnidae
Genus
Isurus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lamniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Species
oxyrinchus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Matsubara, K. (1955) Fish morphology and hierarchy, Part I. Ishizaki-Shoten, Tokyo, 789 pp.
  • Glikman, L. S. (1967) Subclass Elasmobranchii (sharks). In: Obruchev, D. V. (Ed.), Fundamentals of paleontology, Volume 11, Agnatha, Pisces. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, pp. 292 - 352.
  • Compagno, L. J. V. (1990) Relationships of the megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae), with comments on its feeding habits. In: Pratt, H. L., Gruber, S. H. & Taniuchi, T. (Eds), Elasmobranchs as living resources: advances in the biology, ecology, systematics, and the status of the fisheries. NOAA Technical report NMFS, 90, 357 - 379.
  • Munoz-Chapuli, R. & De Andres, A. V. (1995) Anatomy and histology of the cephalic arterial coilings in hammerhead sharks (genus Sphyrna). Acta Zoologica, 76, 301 - 305.
  • Compagno, L. J. V. (2001) Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Volume 2. Bullhead, mackerel and carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes 1 (2). FAO, Rome, viii + 269 pp.
  • Wilga, C. D. (2005) Morphology and evolution of the jaw suspension in lamniform sharks. Journal of Morphology, 265, 102 - 119.
  • Shimada, K., Rigsby, C. K. & Kim, S. H. (2009) Labial cartilages in the smalltooth sandtiger shark, Odontaspis ferox (Lamniformes: Odontaspididae) and their significance to the phylogeny of lamniform sharks. The Anatomical Record, 292, 813 - 817.