Mitsukurina
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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 and named in honour of Kakichi Mitsukuri.<ref name="Jordan 1898">Template:Cite journal</ref>
Species
- †Mitsukurina lineata (Probst, 1879)
- †Mitsukurina maslinensis (Pledge, 1967)
- Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 (goblin shark)
References
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