Blacktip tope
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| Hypogaleus hyugaensis (Miyosi, 1939) |
The blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, is a hound shark of the family Triakidae, the only member of the genus Hypogaleus, found in deep water on the continental shelf in the Indo-West Pacific from East Africa and the Persian Gulf to Taiwan and Japan, and reported from Australia, at depths of between 40 and 230 m. Its length is up to 1.27 m long.
The blacktip tope is dull grey dorsally, paler below, and the front part of snout is slightly dusky. It feeds on bony fishes and cephalopods, and is utilized as a food fish.
Reproduction is viviparous.
[edit] References
- "Hypogaleus hyugaensis". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. July 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
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