Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Carcharhiniformes > Triakidae > Hemitriakis > Hemitriakis japanica

Hemitriakis japanica (Japanese gray shark; Japanese tope shark; Japanese topeshark)

Synonyms: Galeorhinus japonicus; Galeus japanicus; Hemitriakis japonica
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Japanese topeshark (Hemitriakis japanica) is a species of houndshark, in the family Triakidae. It can reach a length of up to 1.1 m. It is found in the subtropical northwest Pacific from China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan, between latitudes 40° N and 21° N.
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Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Hemitriakis japanica

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  15 years

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erudituncus musteli[3]
Erudituncus xiamenensis[4]
Triloculotrema japanicae[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 4Pollerspöck, 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;
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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