Mitsukurina Jordan , 1898

Ebert, David A., White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter R., Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Séret, Bernard, Straube, Nicolas, Naylor, Gavin J. P. & De Carvalho, Marcelo R., 2013, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan, Zootaxa 3752 (1), pp. 279-386 : 307

Genus Mitsukurina Jordan, 1898

Goblin Sharks / Ȁḓḛé

Mitsukurina Jordan, 1898: 199 . Type species: Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 , by monotypy.

Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898

Goblin shark / ṔkȀḓḛ

Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898: 200 , pls. 11–12. Holotype: ZMUT, uncat., 1070 mm juvenile male, near Yokohama, Japan, in deep water [lost].

Local synonymy: Mitsukurina owstoni: Lee & Shao, 2009: 306 , fig. 2; Shen & Wu, 2011: 59, fig.

Taiwan voucher material: (3 spec.) ASIZP 70657 , juvenile female 1280 mm TL, 6 Jul 2002 ; ASIZP 65068 , juvenile female 1110 mm TL, 8 Jul 2005 ; NMMB-P HO-350 , Da-xi, 6 May 2012 .

Remarks: Two of us ( DAE, WTW) observed and photographed a specimen at Da-xi in May 2005 that was estimated to be 1300 mm TL. Despite its general rarity, in April 2003 a gill-net fishing vessel landed 14 specimens off the coast of Su-ao over a three day period in water less than 400–500 m deep. The TL of most of these specimens ranged from 150–200 cm ( Lee & Shao, 2009), although some are up to 300 cm (Hsu, H.-H., pers. comm.).

Conservation status: Least Concern.