Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno, & Struhsaker, 1983
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7F3B4794-65CF-4691-A330-78A423F2606F |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4614679 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039287A1-9541-FFA6-CFF7-5BBBFDE92333 |
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Plazi |
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Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno, & Struhsaker, 1983 |
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Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno, & Struhsaker, 1983 View in CoL View at ENA
Megamouth Shark
Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno, & Struhsaker, 1983: 87 View in CoL , 96, figs. 1–15. Holotype: BPBM 22730 About BPBM , off Oahu GoogleMaps , Hawaiian Islands, 21°51'N, 157°46'W.
Local synonymy: Megachasma pelagios: Smale et al., 2002: 350 View in CoL , fig. 1; Compagno et al., 2005: 178, fig., pl. 28; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 219, fig., pl. 26; NPOA, 2013: 32; Ebert & Dando, 2014: 71, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 145; Weigmann, 2016: 851.
South Africa voucher material: SAM 36030 .
South African distribution: Known from a single specimen that washed ashore at Nature’s Valley near Plettenberg Bay (EC).
Remarks: The South African record is the western most record in the Indian Ocean.
Conservation status: LC (2019).
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South African Museum |
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Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno, & Struhsaker, 1983
| Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M. 2021 |
Megachasma pelagios:
| Smale 2002: 350 |
Megachasma pelagios
| Taylor, Compagno, & Struhsaker 1983: 87 |