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Rhizoprionodon longurio

Description

Rhizoprionodon longurio (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882).

Pacific Sharpnose Shark. To 1.54 m (60.6 in) TL (Franke and Acero 1991). Long Beach, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Paita, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: intertidal to a least 27 m (89 ft) (min.: Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995; max.: Ebert et al. 2013), and perhaps to 100 m (328 ft) (Amezcua Linares 1996).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
  • Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
  • Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.
  • Amezcua Linares, F. (1996) Peces Demersales de la Platforma Continental del Pacifico Central de Mexico. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.