Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Carcharhiniformes > Hemigaleidae > Chaenogaleus > Chaenogaleus macrostoma

Chaenogaleus macrostoma (Hooktooth shark; Balfour's shark)

Synonyms: Hemigaleus balfouri; Hemigaleus macrostoma; Negogaleus balfouri; Negogaleus macrostoma
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Wikipedia Abstract

The hooktooth shark, Chaenogaleus macrostoma, is a weasel shark of the family Hemigaleidae, the only member of the genus Chaenogaleus. It is 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 a depth of 59 meters. It can reach a length of 1 meter.
View Wikipedia Record: Chaenogaleus macrostoma

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Chaenogaleus macrostoma

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Clistobothrium tumidum[1]
Megalonchos mandleyi[1]
Pterobothrium heteracanthum[2]

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♦ 1Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0