First Record of the Goblin Shark, Mitsukurina owstoni, (Mitsukurinidae) with Notes on Its Distribution

A. M. Orlov^a^,^b^,^c^,^d^, * , P. K. Afanasiev^a, and D. V. Pelenev^a
Translated by I. Yu. Feniova

^aRussian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Moscow, Russia

^bSevertsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia

^cDagestan State University, Makhachkala, Russia

^dNational Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

Correspondence to: *e-mail: orlov@vniro.ru

Received 27 June, 2016

Abstract—The first record of the rare deep-sea goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni, was reported from the waters of Morocco (Northwest Africa). Occurrences of this species have been recorded earlier from the waters of Madeira (over 1000 km to the north) and Senegal (over 800 km to the south of the place of our record).

Keywords: goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni, first record, occurrence, Morocco, Northwest Africa, Taiwan

DOI: 10.1134/S0032945217020138