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ORDER LAMNIFORMES Family Lamnidae Lamna nasus (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Porbeagle Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) — Great white shark Reported by Solorzano et al. (1988) based on specimens caught by the long line fleet and discharged at the Coruña fishmarket. We consider this as a doubtful record...

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Main Authors: Mucientes, Gonzalo, Arronte, Juan Carlos
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Published: Zenodo 2010
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6208105
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6208105
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Summary:ORDER LAMNIFORMES Family Lamnidae Lamna nasus (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Porbeagle Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) — Great white shark Reported by Solorzano et al. (1988) based on specimens caught by the long line fleet and discharged at the Coruña fishmarket. We consider this as a doubtful record, because those specimens were probably caught out of the study area. Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1810 — Shortfin mako Family Cetorhinidae Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) — Basking shark Family Alopiidae Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Thintail thresher Alopias superciliosus (Lowe, 1841) — Bigeye thresher Common species in the open waters of the North Atlantic but with a single record from Galicia: a male specimen stranded in Playa América, Nigrán (Pontevedra), in July 2008 (CEMMA, personal communication). Family Scyliorhinidae * Galeus melastomus Rafinesque, 1810 —Blackmouth catshark Galeus atlanticus (Vaillant, 1888) —Atlantic sawtail cat shark Not mentioned for Galician waters neither in ... : Published as part of Mucientes, Gonzalo & Arronte, Juan Carlos, 2010, Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 2667 on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276366 ...