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The gray smooth-hound is a medium-sized spotless shark with a short narrow head. [2] [9] It is morphologically similar to others of its genus with its slender body, long blunt snout, conspicuous sub-ocular ridges, and dorsolateral eyes. [3] The gray smooth-hound is brown to dark-gray dorsally and white ventrally. [2]
The Australian grey smooth-hound or also known as the grey gummy shark (Mustelus ravidus) is a species of houndshark classified under the large family Triakidae. It is one of the twenty-eight species belonging to the genus Mustelus , which are often small in length. [ 1 ]
The dusky smooth-hound (Mustelus canis), also called the smooth dogfish or the dog shark, is a species of houndshark in the family Triakidae. [1] This shark is an olive grey or brown in color, and may have shades of yellow or grayish white. Females live to 16 years and males have a lifespan of 10 years.
Mustelus californicus T. N. Gill, 1864 (gray smooth-hound) Mustelus canis Mitchill, 1815. M. c. canis Mitchill, 1815 (dusky smooth-hound) M. c. insularis Heemstra, 1997 (Caribbean smooth-hound) Mustelus dorsalis T. N. Gill, 1864 (sharptooth smooth-hound) Mustelus fasciatus Garman, 1913 (striped smooth-hound) Mustelus griseus Pietschmann, 1908 ...
Mustelus palumbes J. L. B. Smith, 1957 (white-spotted smooth-hound) Mustelus punctulatus A. Risso, 1827 (black-spotted smooth-hound) Mustelus ravidus W. T. White & Last, 2006 (Australian grey smooth-hound) Mustelus schmitti S. Springer, 1939 (narrow-nose smooth-hound) Mustelus sinusmexicanus Heemstra, 1997 (Gulf smooth-hound)
We know they can grow up to 14 feet in length – comparable in size to “great” white sharks –making them the third-largest predatory shark in the world. However, almost all sighted in Puget ...
They are small to medium in size, ranging from 37 to 220 cm (1.21 to 7.22 ft) in adult length. They are found throughout the world in warm and temperate waters, where they feed on small fish and invertebrates on the seabed and in midwater. [2] Fossil records of this group date back to the Cenomanian. [3]
The furthest west a white shark has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, researchers report a great white shark named LeeBeth has made history.