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	Australian Museum Collections - Ichthyology - Goblin Shark
		The common name Goblin Shark comes from the name given to the shark by the 19th century Japanese fishermen from Odawara, where the sharks were often caught.
		Allen Owston reported that the Goblin Sharks were most often caught in spring from a bank (underwater mass) 94.6m deep, with depths of 540-720m close by.
		Little is known about the behaviour of the Goblin Shark, however, with 50 or so specimens held in museums around the world, Icthyologists are slowly beginning to understand more about the biology of these unusual animals and their deepsea home.
	www.amonline.net.au /collections/ichthyology/shark.htm (410 words)

	Shark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sharks generally rely on their superior sense of smell to find prey, but once they are close they also use the lateral lines running along their sides to sense movement in the water and also employ special sensory pores on their heads (Ampullae of Lorenzini) to detect electrical pulses created by the muscles of prey.
		Sharks include everything from the hand-sized Pygmy Shark, a deep sea species, to the Whale Shark, the largest fish (although sharks are not closely related to bony fish) which is known to grow to a maximum length of approximately 15m (49 feet) and which, like the great whales, feeds only on plankton.
		Sharks are often killed for shark fin soup, in which many sharks are hunted for their fins, which are cut off with a hot metal blade before the live animal is tossed back into the water.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shark (3371 words)

	Goblin Shark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Goblin Shark is the sole known living member of the family Mitsukurinidae; the relatively plentiful fossil record includes another two dozen or so species.
		Goblin Sharks feed on jacopever, octopuses and crabs, most likely by sensing the presence of prey with electro-sensitive organs in the beak, suddenly protruding the jaws, creating a sucking motion with a tongue-like muscle, and using the teeth to hold onto the victim.
		As with Thresher Sharks and other members of the order Lamniformes, the upper lobe of the tail is much longer than the lower lobe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goblin_Shark (243 words)

	Shark
		Once the shark is in the general area of the prey, then the shark begins to use a combination of its smell coupled with the use of the lateral lines running along the side of the shark, used to sense electrical pulses sent out by wounded or dying fish.
		Sharks include everything from the hand-sized pygmy shark, a deep sea species, to the whale shark, the largest fish (although sharks are not closely related to bony fish) which is believed to grow to a maximum length of 18m (59 feet) and which, like the great whales, feeds only on plankton.
		Sharks are a member of Class Chondrichthyes which includes the rays, skates, and Chimaeras.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shark.html (2156 words)

	Shark Article, Shark Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Shark eyes are similar to the eyes of othervertebrates, including similar lenses, corneas and retinas, though their eyesight is well adapted to their marine environment.
		Once the shark is in the general area of the prey, thenthe shark begins to use a combination of its smell coupled with the use of the lateral lines running along the side of the shark,used to sense electrical pulses sent out by wounded or dying fish.
		Sharks include everything fromthe hand-sized pygmy shark, a deepsea species, to the whale shark, the largest fish (although sharks are not closely related to bony fish) which is believed to grow to a maximum length of 18m (59feet) and which, like the greatwhales, feeds only on plankton.
	www.anoca.org /sharks/species/shark.html (1959 words)

	The Goblin Shark Page
		Other useful characteristics are that goblin teeth have a deep nutrient groove in the prominent medial protrusion of the root and the roots have a high arch.
		Anterior goblin teeth are generally two to three times lager than sand tiger shark teeth, but this is not always the true test, especially in juvenile specimens.
		It is believed that the increased competition between sharks during the "Shark bloom" of the Teriary coupled with the changing shark fauna forced the goblins to fill the empty niches of the deeper waters.
	www.njfossils.net /Goblin.html (824 words)

	Goblin Shark, Mitsukurina owstoni
		The Goblin Shark is found in marine waters to depths of about 1200 m.
		This is one of two large male Goblin Sharks (3.6 m and 3.8 m) trawled by FRV Kapala from New South Wales waters.
		In August 2000 a third specimen of Goblin Shark was collected by J. Nemec on the FV Shelley H, east of Bermagui, New South Wales.
	www.amonline.net.au /fishes/fishfacts/fish/mowstoni.htm (609 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The goblin shark was originally described in 1898 by Jordan as Mitsukurina owstoni, from a specimen obtained in the Sagami Sea, near Yokohama, Japan.
		Goblin sharks hunt by sensing the presence of prey with electro-sensitive organs in the rostrum, or snout, due to the absence of light in the deep waters where it swims.
		The rationale given was that despite the fact that goblin shark sightings have been relatively rare, the worldwide distribution of the species, combined with the fact that it was not accidentally taken often as bycatch in fisheries ensured that the species is most probably not in any reasonable danger of extinction.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Goblin_shark (1434 words)

	Biology of the Goblin Shark
		Perhaps the Goblin Shark is not nearly as 'rare' as catch records would seem to indicate and its apparently patchy distribution may be an artifact of reportage.
		In contrast, the Goblin Shark has soft, flabby body with weakly developed myotomes (muscle blocks); small eyes with contractile irises; long, rather delicate and highly protrusile jaws armed with slender, spike-like teeth; and a long, highly asymmetrical caudal fin with a low thrust-angle (a feature common in sharks known to be rather languid swimmers).
		Duffy speculates that the Goblin Shark's spatulate, ampulla-peppered snout may function as a forward-projecting prey detector, in much the same way as certain halfbeaks (teleost fishes of the family Hemiramphidae) use the lateral line organs along their elongated lower jaws to feed at night.
	www.elasmo-research.org /education/shark_profiles/m_owstoni.htm (2885 words)

	Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department: Goblin Shark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		This shark is known as the goblin shark in the Unites States, Australia, New Zealand, England, and South Africa.
		The goblin shark is a bottom-dwelling shark that is rarely seen at the surface or in shallow coastal waters.
		Goblin sharks have 26 large, narrow, awl-like teeth on their upper jaw and 24 on their lower jaw.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/Gallery/Descript/GoblinShark/GoblinShark.html (901 words)

	AquaNews - The Vancouver Aquarium's Aquatic Environmental News Network
		Goblin sharks use the unique fleshy snout over their mouth to sense food in deeper waters that are not lit by surface light.
		A soft-fleshed species of shark, goblin sharks have a unique fleshy snout over their mouth that they use to sense food in deeper waters that are not lit by surface light.
		A unique species in a family of its own, goblin sharks are normally found on the continental slope at depths of about 1,200 metres.
	www.vanaqua.org /aquanew/fullnews.php?id=1550 (270 words)

	NOVA Online \| Island of the Sharks \| Order Lamniformes
		Shark bite: The sand tiger shark is denser than water but it swallows airs at the surface and holds it in its stomach to maintain approximately neutral buoyancy.
		Shark bite: The large eyes of the crocodile shark suggest nocturnal or deepwater activity, and possibly a habit of moving toward the surface at night and away from it in the day.
		Shark bite: Most of the basking sharks that have been caught are female (30 females caught to every one male), which indicates a possible separation of the sexes, either by time or location.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/sharks/world/lamniformes.html (890 words)

	Sharks - What is a Shark?- Enchanted Learning Software
		The sharks that are the most dangerous to people are the great white shark, the tiger shark, the bull shark, and the oceanic whitetip shark.
		Some of the other sharks that are known to have attacked people include the gray shark, blue shark, hammerhead shark, mako shark, nurse shark, lemon shark, fltip reef shark, wobbegongs, sandtiger, spitting sharks, and the porbeagle.
		Pelagic sharks (living in the open ocean) include the great white shark, the basking shark, etc. Benthic sharks (living at the ocean floor) include the zebra horn shark, the wobbegongs, and the angelshark, which usually have flattened, camouflaged bodies that let them hide in the sea bed.
	www.zoomdinosaurs.com /subjects/sharks/allabout (1486 words)

	Mitsukurinidae: Goblin Shark
		The front teeth of the Goblin Shark are dagger-like and smooth-edged, similar to those of the ragged-tooth and Sandtiger sharks, but lack the well-developed basal cusplets characteristic of these species.
		The Goblin Shark's rear teeth, however, are modified for crushing, quite unlike those of ragged-tooth sharks but similar to the rear teeth of the Sandtiger.
		The Goblin Shark's lineage extends farther back than any other lamnoid — some 124 to 112 million years ago — represented in the fossil record by Anomotodon principalis, whose mineralized teeth are similar in form to those of its living descendent.
	www.elasmo-research.org /education/shark_profiles/mitsukurinidae.htm (324 words)

	Sharktrust - shark conservation, shark information, shark news, shark features, shark articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The female Goblin shark, or Mitsukurina owstoni, was hauled in near Strahan on Friday by fishermen, who handed it over to eager scientists for examination.
		Marine biologist Ross Daley said the shark, which weighed about 200kg and was almost 4m long, was one of the largest of its species caught in the world.
		Goblin sharks are a soft-fleshed species with a spatula-shaped snout, which is used to sense food in cold, dark waters where light from the surface cannot penetrate.
	www.sharktrust.org /cgi/main.asp?newsfirst=393 (366 words)

	Goblin Shark
		Sharks - Sharks are amazing fish that have been around since long before the dinosaurs existed.
		Sharks primarily use their sense of smell followed by their sensing of electric charges.
		The Goblin shark is a bottom-dweller found in depths of about 3,940 feet (1,200 m) in the western Pacific, the western Indian Ocean and the western and eastern Atlantic.
	www.maneatingsharks.com /Goblin_Shark.htm (481 words)

	Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department: Goblin Shark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Its body characteristics suggest that it is a slow moving shark with a density close to seawater.
		Mature male goblins have been found to be 8.66 feet (264cm), 10.49 feet (320cm) and 12.6 feet (384cm) in total length.
		The goblin shark is thought to be ovoviviparous; however, a pregnant female has never been captured.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/Gallery/Descript/Goblinshark/Goblinshark.html (901 words)

	Boattalk.com - Sharks of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Sharks are most commonly found in warm seas but live in oceans as well as some rivers and lakes.
		Sharks are amazing fish that have been around since long before the dinosaurs existed.
		Unlike other fish, sharks have no bones; their skeleton is made of cartilage, which is not nearly as hard as bone.
	www.boattalk.com /sharks (222 words)

	Oceanlink \| marine sciences education and fun
		In shark species that disply five gills (whale sharks included), the second gill slit is modified to form the hyoid arch, a chain of cartilage bones associated with supprting the jaws and bracing them against the skull.
		Sharks are carnivores and eat mainly fishes, crustaceans (shrimps, lobsters and crabs), molluscs (squid, octopi, and snails), and larger ocean mammals.
		Sharks do not have a "penis" so to speak, instead they have what is referred to as the intromittent organ, which is used to inject sperm into the female.
	oceanlink.island.net /ask/chondrichthyes.html (10351 words)

	Sharks
		The whale shark is found in all tropical and subtropical oceans, along coastal regions, and enters lagoons on tropical islands.
		The megamouth shark is not likely to be seen by divers because they often live at great depths in the ocean.
		The blue shark is one of the most attractive sharks because it is large and slender, with an indigo blue upper body, bright blue sides, and the a white belly.
	www.geocities.com /jzbar2002/sharks.htm (670 words)

	Goblin Shark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The shark is extremely rare, found only in deep water off Japan, South Africa, perhaps off Portugal, and, in one strange instance, in the Indian Ocean, cable malfunction necessitated the raising of the cable, and an awl-like shark's tooth was found embedded in the wire covering.
		The shark is thought to have been feeding on some sort of animal life growing on the cable at that depth, but very little else is known of its feeding habits.
		The shark's "nose" is dotted with sensory cells.
	www.greengoblin.com /internal/corner/shark.html (362 words)

	The Goblin Shark
		The sharks were caught at a depth of about 1 800 feet (600 metres) on deep-water longlines set for Black Scabbardfish (_Aphanopus carbo_) - an elongate, ferociously predatory fish known locally as 'espada' and considered quite a gastronomic delicacy.
		In April 1998, a 50-inch (128-cm) immature female Goblin Shark was taken off Kaikoura, New Zealand, in a bottom gillnet set at a depth of 1 050-1 445 feet (320-440 metres).
		A 1990 paper by shark systematist Leonard Compagno suggests that, as in the related Megamouth Shark (_Megachasma pelagios_), prey capture in _Mitsukurina_ is probably affected by highly co-ordinated movements of the protrusible jaws, expandable pharynx (throat) and associated structures.
	www.ncf.carleton.ca /~bz050/goblinshark.html (2811 words)

	Rare goblin shark caught at mouth of Tokyo Bay ::: Pink Tentacle
		A goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni), considered a living fossil by scientists, was caught by a trawler off the coast of Miura, Japan.
		Catching the shark in the relatively shallow waters around the mouth of Tokyo Bay is considered highly unusual.
		One defining characteristic of the goblin shark is its elongated snout.
	www.pinktentacle.com /2006/03/rare-goblin-shark-caught-at-mouth-of-tokyo-bay (414 words)

	Alopias superciliosus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Description Thresher Shark - Alopias vulpinus: The bigeye thresher (Alopias superciliosus) is similar to this species; however, it has an enormous vertically oval eye, a v-shaped ridge on the head, a longer...
		The possession of all sharks, except for tiger (Galeocerdo cuvieri), thresher (Alopias vulpinus), bigeye thresher (Alopias superciliosus), shortfin mako...
		Zoology -- Sharks and Allies: Alopias: Alopias pelagicus -- Pelagic Thresher -- [ Martin ] Alopias superciliosus -- Bigeye Thresher -- [ Martin strust ] Alopias vulpinus - Thintail Thresher...
	fish.mongabay.net /A/Alopias_superciliosus.shtml (1558 words)

	Goblin Shark - TheBestLinks.com - Animal, Chordate, Chondrichthyes, Fossil, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
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		Goblin Sharks feed on jacopever, octopuses and crabs, most likely by sensing the presence of prey with organs in the beak, suddenly protruding the jaws, creating a sucking motion with a tongue-like muscle, and using the teeth to hold onto the victim.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Goblin_Shark.html (294 words)

	Photo in the News: Rare "Prehistoric" Goblin Shark Caught in Japan
		The shark had been tangled in fishing nets 500 to 650 feet (150 to 200 meters) deep.
		Little is known about the mysterious goblin shark, which normally stays near the bottom of the ocean.
		"Dead goblin sharks are caught from time to time, but it is rarely seen alive," a park official told the AFP news agency.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2007/02/070209-goblin-shark.html (297 words)

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