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First eastern North Pacific record of the velvet dogfish, Zameus squamulosus (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes: Somniosidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2014

David A. Ebert
Affiliation:
Pacific Shark Research Center, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, California, USA, 95039
James D.S. Knuckey*
Affiliation:
Pacific Shark Research Center, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, California, USA, 95039
Daniel J. Kamikawa
Affiliation:
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 2032 S.E. OSU Drive, Newport, Oregon, USA, 97365
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: J.D.S. Knuckey, Pacific Shark Research Center, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, California, USA, 95039 email: jknuckey@mlml.calstate.edu
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Abstract

The velvet dogfish, Zameus squamulosus, is a poorly known deep water shark, known from the Atlantic, Indian, western, central and south-eastern Pacific Oceans. In this paper, the first record of the velvet dogfish, caught from the eastern North Pacific is reported. The shark, a male 533 mm in total length, was caught by bottom trawl at a depth of 770.7 m off Long Beach, California (33°43′15″N 118°32′14″W), USA.

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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2014 

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