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Main identification features
- slender, cylindricaleye large
- stubby fins
- 1st dorsal fin between pectoral and pelvic
- snout conical;mouth angular, protractile
PSEUDOCARCHARIAS
CROCODILE SHARKS
Body cylindrical and slender; snout long, conical, bulbous; eyes very large; mouth large, ventral, protrusible; teeth large, two rows at front on each jaw, long and awl-like at front; five long gill slits, none over pectoral; first dorsal low, triangular; second dorsal smaller, between pelvics and anal; pectoral small, short, broad; tail asymmetric, upper lobe long, lower lobe short; tail base with keel.
This genus contains a single circumtropical species (absent from Western Atlantic).
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References |
- 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.
- Compagno, L.J.V., 1984., Sharks of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of sharks species known to date. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. FAO Species Catalogue., FAO Fish. Synop. No 125, 4(1):1-249.
- 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.
- Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2.
- Matsubara,., 1936., A new carcharoid shark found in Japan., Dobutsugaku Zasshi [Zool. Mag. Tokyo], 48:380-382.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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