Hooktooth shark

Hooktooth shark Temporal range: 23–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Miocene to Present
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Superorder:	Selachimorpha
Order:	Carcharhiniformes
Family:	Hemigaleidae
Genus:	Chaenogaleus T. N. Gill, 1862
Species:	C. macrostoma
Binomial name
Chaenogaleus macrostoma (Bleeker, 1852)
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The hooktooth shark, Chaenogaleus macrostoma, is a weasel shark of the family Hemigaleidae, the only member of the genus Chaenogaleus. It is found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific oceans between latitudes 30° N and 10° S, including the Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam, China, Taiwan, and Java and Sulawesi in Indonesia, from the surface to a depth of 59 meters. It can reach a length of 1 meter.

See also

• List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera

References

• Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Chaenogaleus macrostoma" in FishBase. may 2006 version.