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Goblin Sharks
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Goblin Sharks

Mitsukurinidae

Mitsukurinidae is a family of sharks with one living genus, Mitsukurina, and four fossil genera: Anomotodon, Protoscapanorhynchus, Scapanorhynchus, and Woellsteinia, though some taxonomists consider Scapanorhynchus to be a synonym of Mitsukurina. The only known living species is the goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni.

This family of sharks is named in honour of Kakichi Mitsukuri who brought the holotype of the family's type species to David Starr Jordan to be scientifically described.

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1 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 1 known species

Mitsukurina

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85900.