Largenose catshark
The largenose catshark (Apristurus nasutus) is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae. The largenose catshark is found on the upper continental slopes in the eastern Pacific, from the Gulf of Panama to Ecuador and central Chile, between 9°N and 28°S. It can grow up to 70 cm. Its reproduction is oviparous. This nose shark is considered to be a harmless species. It is known to originate from the Gulf of Panama, Ecuador, and Central Chile.
| Largenose catshark | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Scyliorhinidae |
| Genus: | Apristurus |
| Species: | A. nasutus |
| Binomial name | |
| Apristurus nasutus F. de Buen, 1959 | |
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This organism has a reported length of between 50-70 cm. This organism lives mostly on the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Though the biology on this species is not much known, this organism tends to stay together with the same organisms/traveling as a pack. These species are harmless to humans and are known as “oviparous breeding species”. Parasites of the largenose catshark, studied off Chile, include Monogeneans, Cestodes, and Nematodes.[2]
References
- "Apristurus nasutus: Concha, F., Ebert, D.A., Herman, K. & Kyne, P.M. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T44573A124433397". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 16 January 2021. 16 January 2021.
- Espínola-Novelo, Juan F.; Escribano, Rubén; Oliva, Marcelo E. (2018). "Metazoan parasite communities of two deep-sea elasmobranchs: the southern lanternshark, Etmopterus granulosus , and the largenose catshark, Apristurus nasutus , in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean". Parasite. 25: 53. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018054. PMC 6244290. PMID 30457552.
Further reading
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Apristurus nasutus" in FishBase. July 2006 version.
- Acevedo-Cervantes, Alejandro; López-Martínez, Juana; Herrera-Valdivia, Eloisa; Rodríguez-Romero, Jesús (December 2009). "Nuevo registro del tiburón narizón, Apristurus nasutus de Buen, 1959, (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) en el Golfo de California, México" [New record of Largenose Catshark, Apristurus nasutus de Buen, 1959, (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) in the Gulf of California, Mexico]. Hidrobiológica (in Spanish). 19 (3): 269–272.