Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Carcharhiniformes > Triakidae > Mustelus > Mustelus californicus

Mustelus californicus (gray smoothhound; Gray smooth hound; Grey smooth-hound)

Language: Czech; Danish; Dutch; French; Mandarin Chinese; Spanish; Swedish

Wikipedia Abstract

The grey smooth-hound (Mustelus californicus) is a houndshark of the family Triakidae,. It is found on the continental shelves of the subtropical eastern Pacific, from northern California to the Gulf of California, between latitudes 40° N and 23° N, from the surface to a depth of 200 m. It can grow up to a length of 1.24 m.
View Wikipedia Record: Mustelus californicus

Attributes

Female Maturity [1]  2 years 1 month
Male Maturity [1]  1 year 7 months
Litter Size [1]  10
Maximum Longevity [1]  9 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary   California, United States
Channel Islands National Park II 139010 California, United States
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge IV 352 California, United States

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Clupea pallasii (Pacific herring)[2]
Neotrypaea gigas (giant ghost shrimp)[2]
Porichthys notatus (Midshipman)[2]

Consumers

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;
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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