Largenose catshark

Summary

The largenose catshark (Apristurus nasutus) is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae. The largenose catshark is found on the upper continental slopes in the eastern Pacific, from the Gulf of Panama to Ecuador and central Chile, between 9°N and 28°S. It can grow up to 70 cm. Its reproduction is oviparous. This nose shark is considered to be a harmless species. It is known to originate from the Gulf of Panama, Ecuador, and Central Chile.

Largenose catshark
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Subdivision: Selachimorpha
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Scyliorhinidae
Genus: Apristurus
Species:
A. nasutus
Binomial name
Apristurus nasutus

This organism has a reported length of between 50-70 cm. This organism lives mostly on the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Though the biology on this species is not much known, this organism tends to stay together with the same organisms/traveling as a pack. These species are harmless to humans and are known as “oviparous breeding species”. Parasites of the largenose catshark, studied off Chile, include Monogeneans, Cestodes, and Nematodes.[2]


References edit

  1. ^ Concha, F.; Ebert, D.A.; Herman, K.; Kyne, P.M. (2020). "Apristurus nasutus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T44573A124433397. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T44573A124433397.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Espínola-Novelo, Juan F.; Escribano, Rubén; Oliva, Marcelo E. (2018). "Metazoan parasite communities of two deep-sea elasmobranchs: the southern lanternshark, Etmopterus granulosus , and the largenose catshark, Apristurus nasutus , in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean". Parasite. 25: 53. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018054. PMC 6244290. PMID 30457552.

Further reading edit

  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Apristurus nasutus" in FishBase. July 2006 version.
  • Acevedo-Cervantes, Alejandro; López-Martínez, Juana; Herrera-Valdivia, Eloisa; Rodríguez-Romero, Jesús (December 2009). "Nuevo registro del tiburón narizón, Apristurus nasutus de Buen, 1959, (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) en el Golfo de California, México" [New record of Largenose Catshark, Apristurus nasutus de Buen, 1959, (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) in the Gulf of California, Mexico]. Hidrobiológica (in Spanish). 19 (3): 269–272.