Updated 21 March 2022
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Mitsukurina Jordan 1898 –ina (L.), belonging to: University of Tokyo zoologist Kakichi Mitsukuri (1858–1909), who placed holotype (provided by Alan Owston, see below) of this “very remarkable shark” in Jordan’s “hands to be identified, figured, and described”

Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan 1898 in honor of Alan Owston (1853–1915), English businessman, yachtsman, collector of Asian wildlife, and resident of Yokohama, Japan, who secured holotype from a fisherman (named for Owston at the request of Kakichi Mitsukuri, see above)