WoRMS taxon details
Isistius brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
AphiaID: 215612
AphiaID: 215612
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Selachii (Infraclass) > Squalomorphi (Superorder) > Squaliformes (Order) > Dalatiidae (Family) > Isistius (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Isistius Gill, 1865 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Isistius Gill, 1865 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Inistius brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (misspelling) Leius ferox Kner, 1864 Scymnus brasiliensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 Scymnus brasiliensis torquatus Müller & Henle, 1839 Scymnus brasiliensis unicolor Müller & Henle, 1839 Scymnus torquatus Müller & Henle, 1839 Scymnus unicolor Müller & Henle, 1839 Squalus fulgens Bennett, 1840 Tristius brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (misspelling) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Pacific [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Feeds on large squids, gonostomatids, crustaceans, and may also bite circular plugs of tissue from large pelagic animals (wahoo, tuna, billfishes, cetaceans etc.) (Ref. 6577).Travels long vertical distances in excess of 2000 to 3000 m on a diel cycle. Presumably ovoviviparous. Tooth replacement: teeth are shed as a complete unit. Interconnection at the bases of individual tooth allows a whole row of teeth to move if one tooth is touched. This shark is reported to radiate light for as long as three hours after its death. [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215612 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Isistius brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215612 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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