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American Pocket Shark
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American Pocket Shark

Mollisquama mississippiensis

Mollisquama mississippiensis or the American pocket shark is a species of pocket shark native to the Gulf of Mexico. It is the second species of pocket shark to be described.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1303388.