WoRMS taxon details
Pseudotriakis microdon de Brito Capello, 1868
AphiaID: 105805
AphiaID: 105805
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Selachii (Infraclass) > Galeomorphi (Superorder) > Carcharhiniformes (Order) > Pseudotriakidae (Family) > Pseudotriakis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Pseudotriakis de Brito Capello, 1868 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Pseudotriakis de Brito Capello, 1868 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Pseudotriakis acrages Jordan & Snyder, 1904 (misspelling) Pseudotriakis acrales Jordan & Snyder, 1904 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] 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: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [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: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Seychelles [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (37 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 8 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Found on the continental and insular slopes, occasionally wandering onto continental shelves. Scanty information on feeding habits but probably eats bony fishes, elasmobranchs and invertebrates. Ovoviviparous, with 2 to 4 young in a litter. Size at birth between 70 and 85 cm. There is reason to believe that this shark may have oophagy or uterine cannibalism, but this remains to be proven. [details] Distribution: The only records in our area are from N.Y. and N.J.; widespread in n. Atlantic [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Habitat: benthic [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105805 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Pseudotriakis microdon de Brito Capello, 1868. 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=105805 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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