Plunket shark

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| name = Plunket shark

| image = Centroscymnus plunketi (Plunket shark).gif

| image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling

| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Finucci, B. |author2=Kyne, P.M. |date=2018 |title=Scymnodon plunketi |volume=2018 |page=e.T46865A68641556 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T46865A68641556.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| genus = Scymnodon

| species = plunketi

| range_map = Proscymnodon plunketi distmap.png

| range_map_caption = Range of the plunket shark (in blue)

| authority = Waite, 1910

| synonyms =

• Centroscymnus plunketi Waite, 1910
• Proscymnodon plunketi Waite, 1910

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The plunket shark or Plunket's shark (Scymnodon plunketi) is a sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found around south eastern Australia, and New Zealand, at depths of between 220 and 1,550 m over continental shelves. It reaches a length of 130 cm.White, W.T., Vaz, D.F.B., Ho, H.-C., Ebert, D.A., Carvalho, M.R.d., Corrigan, S., Rochel, E., Carvalho, M.d., Tanaka, S. & Naylor, G.J.P. (2014): Redescription of Scymnodon ichiharai Yano and Tanaka 1984 (Squaliformes: Somniosidae) from the western North Pacific, with comments on the definition of somniosid genera. Ichthyological Research, 62 (2): 213-229.