Plunket shark

Plunket shark
	Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Superorder:	Selachimorpha
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Somniosidae
Genus:	Scymnodon
Species:	S. plunketi
Binomial name
	Scymnodon plunketi; Waite, 1910
	Range of the plunket shark (in blue)
Synonyms
	Centroscymnus plunketi Waite, 1910; Proscymnodon plunketi Waite, 1910;

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]

References[]

^ 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.) (2006). "Scymnodon plunketi" in FishBase. July 2006 version.

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[iucn_status_18_November_2021-1] 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.

[White2014-2] 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.

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Plunket shark

Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Superorder:	Selachimorpha
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Somniosidae
Genus:	Scymnodon
Species:	S. plunketi
Binomial name
*Scymnodon plunketi* Waite, 1910

Range of the plunket shark (in blue)
Synonyms
Centroscymnus plunketi Waite, 1910 Proscymnodon plunketi Waite, 1910