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New Records for Distribution of the Frilled Shark

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THE frilled shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus, Garman, 1884 (Chlamydoselachidae–Selachii), is a living representative of a primitive order of sharks, fossil remains of which are known from the Pliocene of Europe and the Miocene of the Caribbean1. Much of the interest of this shark lies in its being a living representative of an otherwise fossil order; but it has in addition an interesting distribution. The purpose of this communication is to place on record some new occurrences of this species in the north-eastern Atlantic.

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WHEELER, A. New Records for Distribution of the Frilled Shark. Nature 196, 689–690 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196689b0

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