Blacktailed spurdog

Taxobox
name = Blacktailed spurdog
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Squaliformes
familia = Squalidae
genus = Squalus
species = "S. melanurus"
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range_map_caption = Range of the blacktailed spurdog (in blue)
binomial = "Squalus melanurus"
binomial_authority = Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979The blacktailed spurdog, "Squalus melanurus", is a dogfish, a member of the family Squalidae, found around New Caledonia in the central Pacific Ocean, at depths from 320 to 320 m. Its length is up to 75 cm.

The blacktailed spurdog feeds on lanternfishes, boarfishes, barracudinas, and flatheads. It defends itself from captors by whipping its body and long second dorsal spine.

Coloration is conspicuous black tips on dorsal fins, black dorsal caudal margin, and black ventral caudal lobe.

Its reproduction is ovoviviparous.

ee also

* List of sharks

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