New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts
Short communication
First record of the crocodile shark, Pseudocarcharias
kamoharai (Chondrichthyes: Lamniformes), from New Zealand waters
ANDREW L. STEWART
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
P. O. Box 467
Wellington, New Zealand
email: andrews@tepapa.govt.nz
Abstract Commercial tuna longline fishing targeting bigeye
tuna,
Thunnus obesus (Lowe 1839), on the Three Kings Rise, northern New
Zealand, resulted in the bycatch of a single specimen of a mature male
crocodile shark,
Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara 1936). This is
the first record for the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, and a major
southern range extension of the species in the Indo-Pacific.
Keywords new record; New Zealand; crocodile shark;
Pseudocarcharias kamoharai; identification
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 2001, Vol. 35
M01068
Received 25 July 2001; accepted 10 September 2001
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