Atlantic weasel shark
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| Atlantic weasel shark | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Hemigaleidae |
| Genus: | Paragaleus |
| Species: | P. pectoralis |
| Binomial name | |
| Paragaleus pectoralis (Garman, 1906) |
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The Atlantic weasel shark, Paragaleus pectoralis, is a weasel shark of the family Hemigaleidae, found in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean from the surface to 100 m. Its length is up to 1.4 m.
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Paragaleus pectoralis" in FishBase. may 2006 version.
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