Hooktooth shark

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
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, 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

  1. ^ 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.