New records of the Pacific sleeper shark, Somniosus pacificus (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae), from the southwest Atlantic

Ichthyological Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 303-308

  Díaz De Astarloa, Juan M ^a   Figueroa, Daniel E ^a   Lucífora, Luis ^a   Menni, Roberto C ^b   Prenski, Bruno L ^c   Chiaramonte, Gustavo ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO PESQUERO INIDEP   (Argentina)

^d MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Distribution; Somniosus pacificus; Southwest Atlantic

Indexed keywords

CHONDRICHTHYES; SOMNIOSUS MICROCEPHALUS; SOMNIOSUS PACIFICUS; SQUALIDAE;

EID: 0033443927     PISSN: 13418998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02678517     Document Type: Article

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