Hooktooth shark

Hooktooth shark
Temporal range: 23–0 Ma
Early Miocene to Present[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Chondrichthyes
Order:Carcharhiniformes
Family:Hemigaleidae
Genus:Chaenogaleus
T. N. Gill, 1862
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. It is 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 a depth of 59 meters. It can reach a length of 1 meter.

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References

  1. ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2008-01-09.


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