Dalatiidae

• Main Authors: Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio, Serrano, Alberto
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Squaliformes; Dalatiidae; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5618850; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC642D143A4FFFCC34F2F8BDDCB62A62

Family Dalatiidae Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788) —Kitefin shark 101 specimens were caught at depths between 731 and 1,115 m. Length data were available for 37 specimens ranging from 38 to 151 cm TL (117.1±31.8), with males between 38 and 122 cm (N=10) and females between 42 and 151 cm (N=26). Habitat and Distribution: deepwater, warm–temperate and tropical shark of the outer continental and insular shelves and slopes from 37 to at least 1800 m depth, but most common below 200 m. Northeast Atlantic from north of the British Isles to the northwestern coast of Africa, including Azores and Madeira Islands, Mediterranean Sea, western North Atlantic, Central and western Pacific, and Indian oceans. Vulnerability: EN (IUCN), VHV (FishBase). 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 299, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256670