Registro da ocorrência do tubarão-duende, Mitsukurina owstoni JORDAN, 1898 (LAMNIFORMES: MITSUKURINIDAE) na Região Norte do Brasil. Arquivo de Ciências do Mar. Fortaleza, v.41 n. 2, p. 101-100, 2008.

Abstract

The goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 is a species that inhabits deep water, rarely being seen alive. It belongs to family Mitsukurinidae, reaches up to 4 meters long and it is found in zones down to 1,200 meters deep. For the development of this research, the fisheries were carried out on the continental shelf and slope of Northern Brazil, with trawlings made at depths between 236 and 1,246 meters. The sampling stations were distributed in this region between latitudes 01º23’N and 05º09’N. The deep trawling operations were performed onboard fishing boats in the periods from August, 2002 to May, 2003 and from June, 2003 to July, 2004, by employing five different types of fishing nets. Among the species of cartilaginous fish, on five trawls on the Brazilian northern coast, six specimens of goblin shark were captured. Among the material collected during the fishing trips and sent to an ichtyological museum, fourteen of them were photographic records with their respective catching data and a specimen of goblin shark, the only one in South America.