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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Collected from a fish market in Manila, USNM-197387 (Ref. 244, 47737) and by the WWF Elasmobranch project from Cebu, JPAG 132, immature male, 1145mm (Ref. 47736, 47737). Also Ref. 244, 6871, 13567.
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Main Ref: Alava, M.N.R., J.P.A. Gaudiano, J.A. Utzurrum, E.E.C. Capuli, M.T.R. Aquino, M.M.A. Luchavez-Maypa and M.D. Santos, 2014
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Classification / Names

Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) > Carcharhiniformes (Ground sharks) > Hemigaleidae (Weasel sharks)
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Common names from other countries

Elliot's grey shark, Fossil shark, Lostandhaai, ... more

Main reference

Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. (Ref. 244)
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Size / Weight / Age

Max length : 240 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5578); common length : 200 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 13567)

Length at first maturity
L_m ?, range 120 - ? cm

Environment

Marine; demersal; depth range 1 - 130 m (Ref. 6871)

Climate / Range

Tropical, preferred ?; 41°N - 34°S, 12°E - 156°E (Ref. 6871)

Distribution

Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea and southeast Africa, including Persian Gulf (Ref. 68964) to Philippines, north to China, south to Australia.
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Short description

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 0. A slender weasel shark with a long, broadly rounded snout, large curved, saw-edged teeth in the upper jaw, and hooked lower teeth protruding from mouth; gill slits long; fins strongly curved (Ref. 5578). Light grey or bronzy with no prominent markings (Ref. 5578).

A coastal species, found inshore and offshore on the continental and insular shelves (Ref. 244). Feeds on sharks, rays and bony fishes (Ref. 244); also cephalopods (Ref. 13567). Viviparous (Ref. 50449). Thought to be potentially dangerous because of its large, fearsome teeth and shallow-water habitat, but has not been recorded in an attack on people (Ref. 244). Caught regularly by inshore gillnet, bottom trawl (occasionally) and longline fisheries (Ref.58048). Regularly taken in artisanal fisheries (Ref. 13567). Utilized fresh for human consumption, liver processed for vitamins, fins used in the oriental shark fin trade, and by-products processed into fishmeal (Ref. 244). Most adults below 200 cm (Ref. 30573).

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)

Vulnerable (VU) (A2bd+3bd)

Threat to humans

Traumatogenic (Ref. 5213)

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial

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Estimates of some properties based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82805)
PD₅₀ = 1.0039 many relatives (e.g. carps) 0.5 - 2.0 few relatives (e.g. lungfishes)

Trophic Level (Ref. 69278)
4.3 ±0.3 se; Based on diet studies.

Resilience (Ref. 69278)
Very Low, minimum population doubling time more than 14 years (Fec=2)

Vulnerability (Ref. 59153)
High to very high vulnerability (73 of 100)

Price category (Ref. 80766)
Unknown

Hemipristis elongata (Klunzinger, 1871)