Hooktooth shark

Hooktooth shark; Temporal range: 23–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Miocene to Present
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Subdivision:	Selachimorpha
Order:	Carcharhiniformes
Family:	Hemigaleidae
Genus:	Chaenogaleus
Species:	C. macrostoma
Binomial name
	Chaenogaleus macrostoma; (Bleeker, 1852)

The hooktooth shark (Chaenogaleus macrostoma), is a weasel shark of the family Hemigaleidae, the only extant member of the genus Chaenogaleus, but there is an extinct species, Chaenogaleus affinis. The hooktooth shark 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, Vietnam, 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. It is considered a vulnerable species.

The Hooktooth shark prey items are small fishes,cephalopods and crustaceans

References[edit]

^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2008-01-09.

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

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