hooktooth, shark, hooktooth, shark, chaenogaleus, macrostoma, weasel, shark, family, hemigaleidae, only, extant, member, genus, chaenogaleus, there, extinct, species, chaenogaleus, affinis, hooktooth, shark, found, tropical, indo, west, pacific, oceans, betwee. The hooktooth shark Chaenogaleus macrostoma is a weasel shark of the family Hemigaleidae the only extant member of the genus Chaenogaleus but there is an extinct species Chaenogaleus affinis The hooktooth shark is found in the tropical Indo West Pacific oceans between latitudes 30 N and 10 S including the Persian Gulf Pakistan India Sri Lanka Singapore Thailand Vietnam China Taiwan and Java and Sulawesi in Indonesia from the surface to a depth of 59 meters It can reach a length of 1 meter It is considered a vulnerable species Hooktooth sharkTemporal range 23 0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Miocene to Present 1 Conservation statusVulnerable IUCN 3 1 Scientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataClass ChondrichthyesSubclass ElasmobranchiiSubdivision SelachimorphaOrder CarcharhiniformesFamily HemigaleidaeGenus ChaenogaleusSpecies C macrostomaBinomial nameChaenogaleus macrostoma Bleeker 1852 See also edit nbsp Sharks portalList of prehistoric cartilaginous fish generaReferences edit Sepkoski Jack 2002 A compendium of fossil marine animal genera Chondrichthyes entry Bulletins of American Paleontology 364 560 Archived from the original on 2011 09 30 Retrieved 2008 01 09 Froese Rainer Pauly Daniel eds 2006 Chaenogaleus macrostoma in FishBase may 2006 version nbsp This shark related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hooktooth shark amp oldid 1206592567, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
