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.