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Mitsukurina

Mitsukurina
Temporal range: Eocene - Holocene, 40–0 Ma
Mistukurina owstoni museum victoria.jpg
Goblin shark (M. owstoni)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Selachimorpha
Order: Lamniformes
Family: Mitsukurinidae
Genus: Mitsukurina
D. S. Jordan, 1898
Type species
Mitsukurina owstoni
D. S. Jordan, 1898
Species

Mitsukurina is a genus of mackerel shark in the family Mitsukurinidae. It contains one extant species, the goblin shark (M. owstoni) and more extinct species. The genus was described by American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan in 1898.


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