Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan 1898

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Lamniformes; Mitsukurinidae; Mitsukurina; Mitsukurina owstoni; Yukon; Pacific; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5818575; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818575

Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898. Goblin Shark. Maximum measured size is 4.10 m (13.45 ft) TL (Kukuev 1982); however, a photo of a specimen from the Gulf of Mexico was estimated at 5.40–6.17 m (17.12–20.24 ft) (Parsons et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Honshu, Japan (Aonuma and Yoshino in Nakabo 2002); San Clemente Island, southern California (Ugoretz and Seigel 1999). Depth: surface to 1,300 m (4,264 ft) (Ebert et al. 2013). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 14, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008