Mitsukurina lineata (Probst, 1879)

Höltke, Olaf, Salvador, Rodrigo B. & Rasser, Michael W., 2023, Trophic relationships in the Early Miocene Upper Marine Molasse of Baden-Württemberg, Southwest Germany, with special emphasis on the elasmobranch fauna, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 46) 26 (3), pp. 1-38 : 33

Mitsukurina lineata (Probst, 1879)

Tooth type: Tearing.

The only living species is M. owstoni Jordan, 1898 , which feeds primarily on bony fishes (Yano et al., 2007), having a TL of 4.1 ±0.62 (Froese and Pauly, 2019). This species lives mostly offshore, from 100 to 1300 m depth, rarely approaching the surface (Compagno, 1984; Yano et al., 2007; Ebert et al., 2021). According to Ebert (2003), M. owstoni appears to forage away from the bottom and may in fact occupy more of a midwater habitat than generally assumed.