Mitsukurina

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.^[1]

Mitsukurina Temporal range: Eocene - Holocene, 40–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Goblin shark (M. owstoni)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Lamniformes
Family:	Mitsukurinidae
Genus:	Mitsukurina D. S. Jordan, 1898
Type species
Mitsukurina owstoni D. S. Jordan, 1898
Species
†Mitsukurina lineata (Probst, 1879) †Mitsukurina maslinensis (Pledge, 1967) Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 (goblin shark)

Species

• †Mitsukurina lineata (Probst, 1879)
• †Mitsukurina maslinensis (Pledge, 1967)
• Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 (goblin shark)

References

1. Jordan, David Starr (1898). "Description of a species of fish (Mitsukurina owstoni) from Japan, the type of a distinct family of lamnoid sharks". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Zoology. Series 3. 1 (6): 199–204 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.