The plunket shark or Plunket's shark (Scymnodon plunketi) is a sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found around south eastern Australia, and New Zealand, at depths of between 220 and 1,550 m over continental shelves. It reaches a length of 130 cm.[2]
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| Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Scymnodon |
| Species: | S. plunketi
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| Scymnodon plunketi Waite, 1910
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References
edit- ^ Finucci, B.; Kyne, P.M. (2018). "Scymnodon plunketi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T46865A68641556. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T46865A68641556.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ White, W.T., Vaz, D.F.B., Ho, H.-C., Ebert, D.A., Carvalho, M.R.d., Corrigan, S., Rochel, E., Carvalho, M.d., Tanaka, S. & Naylor, G.J.P. (2014): Redescription of Scymnodon ichiharai Yano and Tanaka 1984 (Squaliformes: Somniosidae) from the western North Pacific, with comments on the definition of somniosid genera. Ichthyological Research, 62 (2): 213-229.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Scymnodon plunketi". FishBase. July 2006 version.
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