Blacktip tope

Blacktip tope
Conservation status
Near Threatened
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Carcharhiniformes
Family:	Triakidae
Genus:	Hypogaleus Smith, 1957
Species:	H. hyugaensis
Binomial name
Hypogaleus hyugaensis (Miyosi, 1939)

Template:Sharksportal The blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, is a hound shark of the family Triakidae, the only member of the genus Hypogaleus, found in deep water on the continental shelf in the Indo-West Pacific from East Africa and the Persian Gulf to Taiwan and Japan, and reported from Australia, at depths of between 40 and 230 m. Its length is up to 1.27 m long.

The blacktip tope is dull grey dorsally, paler below, and the front part of snout is slightly dusky. It feeds on bony fishes and cephalopods, and is utilized as a food fish.

Reproduction is viviparous.

References

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Hypogaleus hyugaensis". FishBase. July 2006 version.