WoRMS taxon details

Mustelus canis (Mitchill, 1815)

158518  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158518)

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marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Distribution Massachusetts to southern Brazil  
Distribution Massachusetts to southern Brazil [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Mustelus canis (Mitchill, 1815). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158518 on 2024-03-19
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2005-05-26 07:43:32Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

context source (HKRMS) Sin, Y. T. (2009). Age, growth and reproductive biology of whitespotted bamboo shark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum) from Hong Kong and adjacent waters. Mphil thesis. The University of Hong Kong. [details]   

context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details]   

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Diet Feeds on large crustaceans, mainly crabs, but also heavily on lobsters  [details]

Distribution Massachusetts to southern Brazil [details]

Habitat benthic [details]

Habitat Found at depths of 0- 579m. [details]

Importance Social- Comercial, fishery and gamefish [details]

Reproduction Viviparous (with a yolk-sac placenta), with 4 to 20 young in a litter [details]
LanguageName 
English smooth dogfishgummy shark [from synonym]  [details]
Spanish cazón dientón  [details]