Elongate carpet shark
| Elongate carpet shark | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Orectolobiformes |
| Family: | Parascylliidae |
| Genus: | Parascyllium |
| Species: | P. elongatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Parascyllium elongatum Last & Stevens, 2008 | |
The elongate carpet shark (Parascyllium elongatum) is a species of carpetshark in the family Parascylliidae. It is known from a single female specimen 42.1 cm (16.6 in) long, recovered from the stomach of a school shark (Galeorhinus galeus) caught from a depth of 50 m (160 ft) off Chatham Island, Western Australia. It was described by P.R. Last and J.D. Stevens in 2008.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Heard, M.; C. Huveneers (2015). "Parascyllium elongatum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- ↑ Last, P.R.; Stevens, J. D. (2008). "Parascyllium elongatum sp. nov., a new collared carpetshark (Orectolobiformes: Parascylliidae) from southwestern Australia". CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. 22: 35–38.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Parascyllium elongatum" in FishBase. January 2017 version.
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Data related to Parascyllium elongatum at Wikispecies
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