- Hooktooth shark
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Hooktooth shark
Temporal range: 23–0 Ma Early Miocene to Present[1]Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Superorder: Selachimorpha Order: Carcharhiniformes Family: Hemigaleidae Genus: Chaenogaleus Species: C. macrostoma Binomial name Chaenogaleus macrostoma
(Bleeker, 1852)The hooktooth shark, Chaenogaleus macrostoma, is a weasel shark of the family Hemigaleidae, the only member of the genus Chaenogaleus, found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific oceans between latitudes 30° N and 10° S, including the Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam, China, Taiwan, and Java and Sulawesi in Indonesia, from the surface to 59 m. Its length is up to 1 m.
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References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=575&rank=class. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Chaenogaleus macrostoma" in FishBase. may 2006 version.
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