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Paragaleus pectoralis (Garman, 1906) 
AphiaID: 105803

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Selachii (Infraclass) > Galeomorphi (Superorder) > Carcharhiniformes (Order) > Hemigaleidae (Family) > Paragaleus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Paragaleus Budker, 1935
Synonymised
taxa		  Hemigaleus pectoralis Garman, 1906
 Paragaleus gruveli Budker, 1935
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Atlantic weasel shark  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Madagascar (probably not valid) [details]
Host of  Lernaeopoda musteli Thomson G.M., 1890 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Note  Description: A very common inshore to offshore shark of the continental shelf occuring at depths of a few meters to slightly over 100 m. A specialist feeder that prefers cephalopods (squid and octopi), also small bony fishes, including soles and sardines. Viviparous (with a yolk-sac placenta), with 1 to 4 young per litter. Size at birth about 47 cm. Utilized fresh and dried salted for human consumption, and processed into fishmeal. [details]
Image 
Paragaleus pectoralis
Paragaleus pectoralis
added on 2009-06-08 - author: Collection Karl-Heinz Dau
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105803
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Paragaleus pectoralis (Garman, 1906). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105803 on 2013-05-20
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