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Subject: New Shark discovered.
From: Mutant posted Thu, Sep 24 2009, 4:10pm 
A new shark has been discovered off the coasts of California and the Baja California peninsula. It is the the eastern pacific black ghostshark. Discovered in the 1960's, this shark is about 3 feet long. It belongs to the little studied chimaeras. They are believed to be the oldest fish alive, after branching off from sharks about 400 million years ago. It belongs to the "big black chimaeras".
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090922-ghost-shark-new-species
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Lookat that, a face only a mother could love.....

Subject: Re: New Shark discovered.
From: CRX posted Sat, Sep 26 2009, 3:10am 
A new shark has been discovered

Discovered in the 1960's


Lol, what?
Subject: Re: New Shark discovered.
From: tonyc posted Sat, Sep 26 2009, 4:26am 
On the suject of almost unknown sharks there are also the freshwater species known as Glyphis sp nova A, B and C. A is known from two specimens, B hasn't been seen since the nineteenth century (although a few caught in Sabah recently may be this species)and there are 9 known specimens of C. There's also the Irrawady River Shark Glyphis siamensis which is only known from one specimen caught in the nineteenth century.

Mysterious creatures.
Subject: Re: New Shark discovered.
From: Andromache posted Sat, Sep 26 2009, 8:54pm 
Looks like a ratfish or a chimeara.Helped take DNA plugs from one of them a while back.Man,they bite really HARD.
Subject: Re: New Shark discovered.
From: Ozraptor4 posted Sun, Sep 27 2009, 12:31pm 
Glyphis sp.A ("Bizant River Shark") = turned out to be the Common Speartooth Shark Glyphis glyphis (Müller & Henle, 1839)

Glyphis sp.B ("Borneo Speartooth Shark') = is still apparently an undescribed distinct species.

Glyphis sp.C = is now Glyphis garricki White & Last 2008

Compagno, L.J.V., White, W.T., and Last, P.R. (2008). Glyphis garricki sp. Nov., a new species of river shark (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) from northern Australia and Papua New Guinea, with a redescription of Glyphis glyphis (Muller & Henle, 1839). In: Descriptions on New Australia Chondrichthyans. Eds. P.R. Last, W.T. White and J.J. Pogonoski, CSIRO Research Paper No. 022.
Subject: Re: New Shark discovered.
From: tonyc posted Mon, Sep 28 2009, 3:39pm 
Heh, cheers for the update.
It's nice that G. sp. nova C now has a valid name.
Subject: Re: New Shark discovered.
From: tonyc posted Mon, Sep 28 2009, 5:22pm 
So the description of G. glyphis has been widened to include G. sp. nova A?

Generally I'm a lumper rather than a splitter anyway...
Subject: Re: New Shark discovered.
From: EastTxSwamp posted Wed, Sep 30 2009, 9:27am 
Remind me this winter to not ask you for help with firewood.


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