| Home |
| About |
| Search taxa |
| Taxon tree |
| Literature |
| Checklist |
| Specimens |
| Match taxa |
| Editors |
| Statistics |
| Users |
| Webservice |
| Photogallery |
| Info downloads |
| Log in |
 RSS |
 Add provider |
WoRMS taxon details
Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788)
AphiaID: 105833
AphiaID: 105833
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Selachii (Infraclass) > Squalomorphi (Superorder) > Hexanchiformes (Order) > Hexanchidae (Family) > Hexanchus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Hexanchus Rafinesque, 1810 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Hexanchus corinum Jordan & Gilbert, 1880 Hexanchus corinus Jordan & Gilbert, 1880 Hexanchus griseus australis de Buen, 1960 Monopterhinus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) Monopterinus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (synonym) Notidanus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) Notidanus monge Risso, 1827 Notidanus vulgaris Perez Canto, 1886 Squalus griseus Bonnaterre, 1788 (synonym) Squalus vacca Bloch & Schneider, 1801 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [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 - Chondrichthyes, 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. 358-360 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Moore, J. A., M. Vecchione, B.B. Collette, and R. Gibbons. 2002. The fauna of Bear Seamount (New England Seamount chain), and the presence of "natural invader" species. Paper presented at ICES 2002 Annual Science Conference summarizing the results of DE02 [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007 (look up in IMIS) [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: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Bonnaterre, J.P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. Paris. i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B + 1-100. page(s): 9 [details] additional source: Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37 (look up in IMIS) page(s): 9 [details] additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa | Subspecies Hexanchus griseus australis de Buen, 1960 accepted as Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) Subspecies Hexanchus griseus nakamurai Teng, 1962 accepted as Hexanchus nakamurai Teng, 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Comores [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Grecian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To FishBase To GenBank To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes) To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Sits on the bottom by day, and rise to the surface at night to feed. Feeds on a wide range of marine organisms, including other sharks (conspecifics) rays, chimaeras, bony fishes including dolphinfishes, swordfish & marlin, herring, grenadiers, cod, ling, hake, flounders, gurnards & anglers, as well as squids, crabs, shrimps, carrion and even seals. Ovoviviparous with 22-108 in a litter. Not known to have attacked people without provocation. Sensitive to low light. Used for food either fresh, frozen, or dried salted. Also utilized for fishmeal and oil. [details] Distribution: Nova Scotia, in Emerald Basin, to Northern Argentina [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Type species: Type species of genus. In Family Heptanchidae in <143> [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Images |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Edit history |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citation: Bailly, N. (2009). Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788). In: Nicolas Bailly (2009). World Database of Marine Pisces. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105833 on 2010-09-02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License |
