Mitsukurinidae, Jordan, 1898

Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia & Freitas, Mafalda, 2018, Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes, Zootaxa 4429 (3), pp. 459-494 : 464

Family Mitsukurinidae

* Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 —No common name in Madeira; Goblin shark ( Fig. 2 )

Cadenat & Blache 1981: 138–141 | Quéro 1984b: 82 | Sanches 1986: 54 | Lloris et al. 1991: 232 | Compagno 1984a: 223–224; 2001: 69–70 | Carneiro et al. 2014: 10.

Distribution in Macaronesia. recorded only from Madeira.

Remarks. in MMF there are two formalin preserved specimens, the first dated from 1956 (MMF 8196) and the other one dated from 2004 (MMF 36064). To our knowledge, the latter was the last specimen of this species to be caught in Madeiran waters. It was caught in a bottom long line at Funchal Bay at 2500 m of depth, in the framework of project PESCPROF-1.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Mitsukurina owstoni (MMF 8196). Female, 3100 mm TL, caught at Madeira in 1956 by the black scabbard fish fishermen.