WoRMS taxon details
Hexanchus vitulus Springer & Waller, 1969
217627 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217627)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Hexanchus vitulus Springer & Waller, 1969. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217627 on 2025-12-11
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Taxonomy
status source
Daly-Engel, T. S.; Baremore, I. E.; Grubbs, R. D.; Gulak, S. J. B.; Graham, R. T.; Enzenauer, M. P. (2018). Resurrection of the sixgill shark Hexanchus vitulus Springer & Waller, 1969 (Hexanchiformes, Hexanchidae), with comments on its distribution in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-018-0849-x [details] Available for editors 
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[request]Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) Clark, E.; Kristof, E. (1990). How deep do sharks go? Reflections on deep sea sharks . Underwater Naturalist, 19 & 20(4 & 1): 79-84 [details]
context source (Bermuda) Clark, E.; Kristof, E. (1990). How deep do sharks go? Reflections on deep sea sharks . Underwater Naturalist, 19 & 20(4 & 1): 79-84 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Validity Resurrected as valid species by Daly-Engel et. al (2018) [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | sixgill shark | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To FishBase
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 60 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hexanchus vitulus RAD109955-002)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hexanchus vitulus RAD109955-003)
To ITIS
To FishBase
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 60 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hexanchus vitulus RAD109955-002)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hexanchus vitulus RAD109955-003)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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