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New records of the pacific sleeper shark,somniosus pacificus (chondrichthyes: Squalidae), from the southwest atlantic

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  1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas (CONICET), Departmento de Ciencias Marinas Facultad de Cs. Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3350, 7600, Mar del Plata, Argentina

    Juan M. Díaz de Astarloa

  2. Departmento de Ciencias Marinas, Facultad de Cs. Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3350, 7600, Mar del Plata, Argentina

    Daniel E. Figueroa & Luis Lucífora

  3. CONICET, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900, La Plata, Argentina

    Roberto C. Menni

  4. Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo Pesquero (IN1DEP), C.C. 175, 7600, Mardel Plata, Argentina

    Bruno L. Prenski

  5. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Av. Angel Gallardo 470, 1405, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Gustavo Chiaramonte

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02673989.

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Díaz de Astarloa, J.M., Figueroa, D.E., Lucífora, L. et al. New records of the pacific sleeper shark,somniosus pacificus (chondrichthyes: Squalidae), from the southwest atlantic. Ichthyological Research 46, 303–308 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02678517

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