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Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810) 
AphiaID: 105844

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Selachii (Infraclass) > Galeomorphi (Superorder) > Lamniformes (Order) > Odontaspididae (Family) > Odontaspis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Odontaspis Agassiz, 1838
Parent Odontaspis Agassiz, 1838
Synonymised
taxa
  Carcharias ferox (Risso, 1810)
Odontaspis herbsti Whitley, 1950
Squalus ferox Risso, 1810
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: 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: Compagno, L.J.V. (2001). Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Volume 2. Bullhead, mackerel and carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 1, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO. 269p. [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: 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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Afrikaans Knopstert-skeurtandhaai  [details]
Albanian peshkaqeni i egër  [details]
English bumpytail ragged-tooth shark  [details]
English fierce shark  [details]
English Herbsts (or Herbst’s) nurse shark  [details]
English ragged-tooth  [details]
English ragged-tooth shark  [details]
English sand tiger shark  [details]
English smalltooth sand tiger  [details]
English tiger ragged-tooth  [details]
French requin féroce  [details]
German Kleinzahn-Sandtigerhai  [details]
German Schildzahnhai  [details]
Hebrew כריש-שן אימתני  [details]
Italian cagnassown de foundo  [details]
Italian cagnia  [details]
Italian can da denti  [details]
Italian carcaria feroce  [details]
Italian lamia  [details]
Italian odontaspe feroce  [details]
Italian pisci cani  [details]
Italian smidiru  [details]
Italian squalo feroce  [details]
Italian triglochide feroce  [details]
Japanese Ôwanizame  [details]
Lithuanian aštriadantis smėlryklis  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Αγριοκαρχαρίας  [details]
Polish rekin tygrysi  [details]
Russian острозубая песчаная акула  [details]
Spanish salroig  [details]
Spanish solraig  [details]
Spanish solrayo  [details]
Spanish surraig  [details]
Turkish pamuk baligi  [details]
Turkish pamuk balığı  [details]
Ukrainian Акула піщана дрібнозуба  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Chagos [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 41 [details]
FAO fishing area 51 [details]
FAO fishing area 57 [details]
FAO fishing area 61 [details]
FAO fishing area 71 [details]
FAO fishing area 77 [details]
FAO fishing area 81 [details]
FAO fishing area 87 [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Madagascar [details]
New South Wales [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Specimen  Holotype (from synonym): AM IB.2136, locality New South Wales (Gabo Island) [view taxon]
Host of  Nemesis lamna Risso, 1826 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (72 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 18 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 shelves. Feeds on small bony fishes, squids, and shrimps. Reproduction is unknown but presumably similar to @C. taurus@. Uses its long body cavity and large, oily liver to regulate buoyancy. Not implicated in attacks on people. Utilized for human consumption and for its liver which has a high squalene content. [details]

Habitat: This shark is a little-known inhabitant of deepish water in warm-temperate and tropical seas, on or near the bottom on continental and insular shelves and upper slopes at depths of 13 to 420 m, also possibly epipelagic zone in 140 to 180 m over the ocean floor. Sometimes observed by divers near dropoffs on coral reefs. [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Remark: Date Eschmeyer, pers. comm. Type species of genus. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105844
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). Odontaspis ferox. 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=105844 on 2013-05-22
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