Blacktip tope
| Blacktip tope | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Triakidae |
| Genus: | Hypogaleus J. L. B. Smith, 1957 |
| Species: | H. hyugaensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypogaleus hyugaensis (Miyosi, 1939) | |
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The blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, and the only member of the genus Hypogaleus. It is found in the deep waters of the continental shelf in the Indo-West Pacific, from East Africa to Japan, at depths between 40 and 230 m. It can grow up to a length of 1.27 m.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Hypogaleus hyugaensis" in FishBase. February 2011 version.