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	<dwc:ScientificName>Gorgasia thamani Greenfield &amp; Niesz, 2004</dwc:ScientificName>
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	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=205&amp;speccode=63434'>Breder, C.M. and D.E. Rosen0 Modes of reproduction in fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey. 941 p. (Ref. 205)</reference>
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	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=105471&amp;speccode=63434'>eElurikkus0 eElurikkus koondab ühte portaali Eesti eluslooduse andmed. http://elurikkus.ut.ee/ (Ref. 105471)</reference><dataObject>
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	<dc:description>This large, broad-headed species of the 'megalops-cubensis group' is distinguished by the following set of characters:  head width at mouth 12.1-13.5% TL; mouth width 2.2-2.7 times its horizontal prenarial length; direct pre-second dorsal length 3.9-4.0 times the pectoral-fin anterior margin, 2.7 times dorsal caudal margin; preoral length 2.7-3.1 times the horizontal prenarial length, 9.2-10.5% TL; strongly bifurcated anterior nasal flap; low and raked first dorsal fin; exposed bases of dorsal-fin spines are broad, 0.7-0.8% TL; both dorsal fins with short inner margins, first dorsal-fin height 1.4-1.5 times its inner margin length, second dorsal-fin height 0.8-1.0 times its inner margin length; pectoral-fin anterior margin 1.8-2.0 times its inner margin length; preventral caudal margin 1.8-2.2 times the inner margin of pelvic fin; dorsal fins with dark distal portion, posterior margin of free rear tip pale; caudal fin upper posterior margin broadly white, lower lobe with dark base and pale outer half, no caudal bar; flank denticles unicuspid or weakly tricuspid; monospondylous centra 45,  precaudal centra 86-89, total centra 113-118 (Ref. 58438).</dc:description>
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	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=58438&amp;speccode=63434'>Last, P.R., B. Séret and J.J. Pogonoski 2007 &lt;i&gt;Squalus bucephalus&lt;/i&gt; sp. Nov., a new short-snout spurdog from New Caledonia. p. 23-29. In P.R. Last, W.T. White and J.J. Pogonoski Descriptions of new dogfishes of the genus &lt;i&gt;Squalus (Squaloidea: Squalidae&lt;/i&gt;). CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 014. 130 p. (Ref. 58438)</reference></dataObject><dataObject>
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	<dc:description>Western Pacific:  northern Tasman Sea on Norfolk Ridge (Stylaster Seamount), and off New Caledonia.</dc:description>
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	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=58438&amp;speccode=63434'>Last, P.R., B. Séret and J.J. Pogonoski 2007 &lt;i&gt;Squalus bucephalus&lt;/i&gt; sp. Nov., a new short-snout spurdog from New Caledonia. p. 23-29. In P.R. Last, W.T. White and J.J. Pogonoski Descriptions of new dogfishes of the genus &lt;i&gt;Squalus (Squaloidea: Squalidae&lt;/i&gt;). CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 014. 130 p. (Ref. 58438)</reference></dataObject><dataObject>
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	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=205&amp;speccode=63434'>Breder, C.M. and D.E. Rosen 1966 Modes of reproduction in fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey. 941 p. (Ref. 205)</reference></dataObject><dataObject>
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