Whitespotted smooth-hound
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| Mustelus palumbes Smith, 1957 |
The whitespotted smooth-hound, Mustelus palumbes, is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, found on the continental shelves of the subtropical southeast Atlantic from Namibia around South Africa between latitudes 17° S and 36° S, from the surface to 440 m. Its length is up to 1.2 m.
Whitespotted smooth-hounds are found on the continental shelf and upper slope from the intertidal region to deeper waters over sand and gravel bottoms. They feed on crustaceans, octopuses, bony fish, and fish offal.
Reproduction is Ovoviviparous.
The whitespotted smooth-hound has lines or scatterings of small white spots along the body, grey above, white below.
[edit] References
- "Mustelus palumbes". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. July 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
