Megachasma pelagios
Aus WORLDFISH WIKI
Taylor et al., 1983
Familie: Megachasmidae Lokale Bezeichnung |
Typen
Holotypus: BPBM 22730
Typusfundort: About 42 kilometers northeast of Kahuku Point, Oahu Island, Hawaii Islands, 21°51'N, 157°46'W (Karte), depth about 165 meters.
Etymologie
Von pelagios (= von der offenen See), bezieht sich auf das epipelagische Habitat. (Übersetzt aus: The ETYFIsh Project)
Literatur
- Taylor, L. R., Jr., Compagno, L. J. V. & Struhsaker, P. J. 1983. Megamouth -- a new species, genus, and family of lamnoid shark (Megachasma pelagios, family Megachasmidae) from the Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, (Series 4) 43 (8): 87-110. (BHL) Zitatseite [: 96]
- Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 4. Sharks of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Part 1 - Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. i-viii + 1-249. (PDF) / Part 2. Charcharhiniformes. No. 125, 4 (2): 251-655. Zitatseite [:227f][Zeichnung, Beschreibung, Verbreitung]
- Nakaya, K. 1989. Discovery of a megamouth shark from Japan. Japanese Jounranl of Ichthyology, 36 (1): 144-146. Zitatseite [:144-146][Vebreitung]
- Hutchins, B. & Haight, T. 1992. Megamouth. UWF, 17 (1): 92-95. Zitatseite [:92-95][Farbfoto, Verbreitung]
- White, W.T., Fahmi, Adrim, M. & Sumadhiharga, K. 2004. A juvenile megamouth shark Megachasma pelagios (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae) from northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 52 (2): 603-607. (PDF) Zitatseite [:603ff][record]
- Watanabe, Y.Y. & Papastamatiou, Y.P. 2019. Distribution, body size and biology of the megamouth shark Megachasma pelagios. Journal of Fish Biology, First published: 10 May 2019. (doi) Zitatseite
- Skelton, Z.R., Kacev, D., Frable, B.W., Chang, A., Costescu, V., Stabile, D. & Ebert, D.A. 2023. Two’s company: first record of two free-swimming megamouth sharks, Megachasma pelagios (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae), off the California coast. Environmental Biology of Fishes, Published: 13 March 2023. (doi) Zitatseite
- van Beuningen, D., Bennett, R.H. & Abdulla, A.S. 2023. First record of the megamouth shark Megachasma pelagios (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae), from the United Republic of Tanzania. Zootaxa, 5380 (6): 595–598. (doi) Zitatseite