Brown smooth-hound
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| Brown smooth-hound | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Triakidae |
| Genus: | Mustelus |
| Species: | M. henlei |
| Binomial name | |
| Mustelus henlei (Gill, 1863) | |
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The brown smooth-hound, Mustelus henlei, is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, found on the continental shelves of the subtropical eastern Pacific from northern California to the Gulf of California, Ecuador and Peru between latitudes 43° N and 18° S, from the surface to 200 m. Its length is up to 1 m.
Reproduction is viviparous.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Mustelus henlei" in FishBase. July 2006 version.
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