Plunket shark

Plunket shark
Plunket shark
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Somniosidae
Genus: Proscymnodon
Species: P. plunketi
Binomial name
Proscymnodon plunketi
(Waite, 1910)
Range of the Plunket shark (in blue)
Synonyms

Centroscymnus plunketi

The plunket shark, Proscymnodon 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.

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