Tropical Eastern Pacific Records of the Prickly Shark, Echinorhinus cookei (Chondrichthyes: Echinorhinidae)
2011; University of Hawaii Press; Volume: 65; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2984/65.4.433
ISSN1534-6188
AutoresDouglas J. Long, John E. McCosker, Shmulik Blum, Avi Klapfer,
Tópico(s)Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
ResumoMost records of the prickly shark, Echinorhinus cookei Pietschmann, 1928, are from temperate and subtropical areas of the Pacific rim, with few records from the tropics. This seemingly disjunct distribution led some authors to consider E. cookei to have an antitropical distribution. Unreported museum specimens and underwater observations of E. cookei from Cocos Island, Costa Rica; the Galápagos Islands; and northern Peru confirm its occurrence in the tropical eastern Pacific and, combined with other published records from the eastern Pacific, establish a continuous, panhemispheric eastern Pacific distribution.
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