Largenose catshark
| Largenose catshark | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Scyliorhinidae |
| Genus: | Apristurus |
| Species: | A. nasutus
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| Binomial name | |
| Apristurus nasutus F. de Buen,1959
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Thelargenose catshark(Apristurus nasutus) is acatsharkof thefamilyScyliorhinidae. The largenose catshark is found on the uppercontinental slopesin the easternPacific,from theGulf of PanamatoEcuadorand centralChile,between 9°N and 28°S. It can grow up to 70 cm. Its reproduction isoviparous.This nose shark is considered to be a harmless species. It is known to originate from the Gulf of Panama, Ecuador, and Central Chile.
This organism has a reported length of between 50-70 cm. The organism lives mostly on the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Though the biology on this species is not much known, this organism tends to stay together with the same organisms/traveling as a pack. These species are harmless to humans and are known as “oviparous breeding species”. Parasitesof the largenose catshark, studied off Chile, includeMonogeneans,Cestodes,andNematodes.[2]
References
[edit]- ^Concha, F.; Ebert, D.A.; Herman, K.; Kyne, P.M. (2020)."Apristurus nasutus".IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.2020:e.T44573A124433397.doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T44573A124433397.en.Retrieved12 November2021.
- ^Espínola-Novelo, Juan F.; Escribano, Rubén; Oliva, Marcelo E. (2018)."Metazoan parasite communities of two deep-sea elasmobranchs: the southern lanternshark, Etmopterus granulosus, and the largenose catshark, Apristurus nasutus, in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean".Parasite.25:53.doi:10.1051/parasite/2018054.PMC6244290.PMID30457552.
Further reading
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006)."Apristurus nasutus"inFishBase.July 2006 version.
- Acevedo-Cervantes, Alejandro; López-Martínez, Juana; Herrera-Valdivia, Eloisa; Rodríguez-Romero, Jesús (December 2009)."Nuevo registro del tiburón narizón,Apristurus nasutusde Buen, 1959, (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) en el Golfo de California, México "[New record of Largenose Catshark,Apristurus nasutusde Buen, 1959, (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) in the Gulf of California, Mexico].Hidrobiológica(in Spanish).19(3): 269–272.
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