{{Short description|Genus of sharks}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Eocene - Holocene, {{fossil range|40|0}} | image = Mistukurina owstoni museum victoria.jpg | image_caption = Goblin shark (''M. owstoni'') | taxon = Mitsukurina | authority = D. S. Jordan, 1898 | type_species = ''Mitsukurina owstoni'' | type_species_authority = D. S. Jordan, 1898 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * †''Mitsukurina lineata'' <small>(Probst, 1879)</small> * †''Mitsukurina maslinensis'' <small>(Pledge, 1967)</small> * ''Mitsukurina owstoni'' <small>Jordan, 1898</small> (goblin shark) }}
'''''Mitsukurina''''' is a genus of mackerel shark in the family Mitsukurinidae. It contains one extant species, the goblin shark (''M. owstoni'') and more extinct species. The genus was described by American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan in 1898 and named in honour of Kakichi Mitsukuri.<ref name="Jordan 1898">{{cite journal|author=Jordan|first=David Starr|year=1898|title=Description of a species of fish (''Mitsukurina owstoni'') from Japan, the type of a distinct family of lamnoid sharks|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38967781|journal=Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Zoology|series=Series 3|volume=1|issue=6|pages=199–204|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>
==Species== * †''Mitsukurina lineata'' <small>(Probst, 1879)</small> * †''Mitsukurina maslinensis'' <small>(Pledge, 1967)</small> * ''Mitsukurina owstoni'' <small>Jordan, 1898</small> (goblin shark)
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Category:Mitsukurina Category:Bartonian first appearances Category:Extant Eocene first appearances Category:Shark genera Category:Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Category:Fish genera with one living species
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