© Copyright Ross Robertson, 2006 · 12 Hexanchus griseus Click on map for details about points. 80x5 - 240x3 - 240x4 - 320x1 - 320x2 - 320x3 - 640x1 - 640x2 Set display option above. Click on image to enlarge. © Copyright Photographer/SFTEP, 2002 · 0 Hexanchus griseus see all kinds   •  3 thumbnails  •  slide show Kinds Hexanchus griseus, Bluntnose Sixgill Shark Hexanchus nakamurai, Bigeye Sixgill Shark español Overview Main identification features robust head and snout wide no dark spots 1 dorsal fin near c gill slits: 6, long, before pectoral HEXANCHUS SIXGILL SHARKS Six large gill slits, none over pectoral base; head and snout wide, rounded; eyes small to large; lower teeth comblike (long, low, serrated); one dorsal fin, at rear of body near tail; tail with small lower lobe. This genus, with two species, occur in occurs in tropical to temperate parts of all 3 oceans; one circumglobal temperate species enters the fringes of our region. References Acevedo , G. , Rubio , E. A. and Zapata, L. A., 1998., Primer hallazgo del tiburon cañabota Hexanchus griseus (Bonaterre, 1788) (Pisces: Chondrichthyes, Hexanchidae) en aguas del pacifico tropical americano., Bol. Invest. Mar. Cost., 27:39-44. Bonnaterre, J. P., 1788., Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. Paris., Tabl. Encyclop. Méthod. Ichthyol., :1-215. Compagno, L.J.V., 1999., Checklist of living elasmobranchs. In Hamlett W.C. (ed.) Sharks, skates, and rays: the biology of elasmobranch fishes., The John Hopkins University Press:471-498. Eschmeyer , W. N. , Herald , E. S. and Hamman, H., 1983., A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Peterson Field Guide Ser. 28., Houghton Mifflin:336pp. Fischer , W. , Krup , F. , Schneider , W. , Sommer , C. , Carpenter , K. E. and Niem, V. H., 1995., Guia FAO para la Identificacion de Especies de para los fines de la Pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental. Volumen II. Vertebrados - Parte 1., FAO2:647-1200. Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp. Acknowledgements Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page. Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation go to Discover Life's Facebook group Updated: 2024-05-08 03:54:01 gmt FishBase | Search | All Living Things | Top © Designed by The Polistes Corporation