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The megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios, is not a luminous species

Despite its five meters length, the megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno & Struhsaker, 1983) is one of the rarest big sharks known in the world (117 specimens observed and documented so far). This filter-feeding shark has been assumed to be a luminous species, using its species-...

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Autores principales: Duchatelet, Laurent, Moris, Victoria C., Tomita, Taketeru, Mahillon, Jacques, Sato, Keiichi, Behets, Catherine, Mallefet, Jérôme
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7688146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33237911
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242196