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The goblin shark is characterized by its long snout, often looking like a sword blade.

It first made a scholarly appearance when it was published in the 1898 issue of the Proceedings of the California Academy of Science, when American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan studied a specimen caught in Sagami Bay, near Yokohama Prefecture, Japan. It was given to him by Professor Kakichi Mitsukuri of the University of Tokyo, who was brought to Mitsukuri by a shipmaster and naturalist named Alan Owston. The shark was then named after these two people, with the scientific name Mitsukurina owstoni.

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