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Summary of South American records of the smalltooth sand tiger shark Odontaspis ferox (Chondrichthyes: Odontaspidae), with the first record from Chilean waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2014

Douglas J. Long ,
Enric Sala ,
Enric Ballesteros ,
Jennifer E. Caselle ,
Alan M. Friedlander ,
Avi Klapfer ,
Shmulik Blum  and
Heather B. Constable
Douglas J. Long*
Affiliation:
Department of Ichthyology, Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco CA 94118 USA
Enric Sala
Affiliation:
National Geographic Society, 1145 17th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20036 USA
Enric Ballesteros
Affiliation:
Centre d'Estudis CSIC, 17300 Blanes, Spain
Jennifer E. Caselle
Affiliation:
Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
Alan M. Friedlander
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
Avi Klapfer
Affiliation:
Undersea Hunter Group, San Jose, Costa Rica
Shmulik Blum
Affiliation:
Undersea Hunter Group, San Jose, Costa Rica
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: D.J. Long, Department of Biology, St Mary's College, 1928 St Mary's Road, Moraga, CA, 94575, USA email: dlong@stmarys-ca.edu
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Abstract

Observations, photographs, and video footage of a 337 cm total length female smalltooth sand tiger shark, Odontaspis ferox made at a depth of 348 m on the northern slope of San Ambrosio Island in the Desventuradas Islands (26°19.456′S 79°52.281′W) on 25 February 2013 represent not just the first record of this species in Chilean waters, but the first in the entire south-eastern Pacific Ocean, marking a tremendous range extension of this species. We also summarize the few known occurrences of this species along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of South America.

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sharkOdontaspisLamnidaechondrichthyesbiogeographyichthyofaunaChilerange extensiondistributiondeep sea

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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 7 , 2014 , e67
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2014 

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Current Address: Department of Biology, St Mary's College, 1928 St Mary's Road, Moraga, CA 94556 USA

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