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Mustelus lunulatus (sicklefin smoothhound; Sicklefin smooth hound; Sicklefin smooth-hound)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The sicklefin smooth-hound (Mustelus lunulatus) is a houndshark of the family Triakidae. It is found on the continental shelves of the eastern Pacific, between latitudes 33° N and 7° N. It can reach a length of up to 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in). The reproduction of this shark is ovoviviparous.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado Biosphere Reserve VI 2320468 Sonora, Mexico  

Prey / Diet

Michalisquilla parva[1]
Squilla panamensis[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cynoscion nannus (Dwarf weakfish)1
Lophiodes spilurus (Threadfin goosefish)1
Lutjanus guttatus (mutton snapper)1
Mustelus dorsalis (Sharpnose smooth hound)1
Zapteryx xyster (Southern Banded Guitarfish)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Lacistorhynchus dollfusi[2]
Ptychogonimus megastomum[3]
Symcallio evani[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding ecology of elasmobranch fishes in coastal waters of the Colombian Eastern Tropical Pacific, Andrés F Navia, Paola A Mejía-Falla and Alan Giraldo, BMC Ecology 2007, 7:8
♦ 2Pollerspöck, 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;
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Gibson, 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