Slender smooth-hound

Slender smooth-hound

Taxobox
name = Slender smooth-hound
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend =


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Carcharhiniformes
familia = Proscylliidae
genus = "Gollum"
species = "G. attenuatus"
binomial = "Gollum attenuatus"
binomial_authority = (Garrick, 1954)
The slender smooth-hound, "Gollum attenuatus", is a finback catshark of the family Proscylliidae, the only member of the genus "Gollum", found off New Zealand and on rises between New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, New Caledonia, and Fiji just south of the western central Pacific, at depths of between 120 and 660 m. It reaches a length of 107 cm (male) and 109 cm (female).

Distribution and habitat

This shark is found off New Zealand and on rises between New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, New Caledonia, and Fiji just south of the western central Pacific

Anatomy and appearance

The slender smooth-hound has two relatively large dorsal fins, the second slightly larger than the first. The caudal fin is without a rippled dorsal margin and ventral lobe, but with a strong sub-terminal notch.

Its coloration is a brown-grey above and paler below.

Diet

Food is a wide variety of fishes, cephalopods, and other invertebrates.

Reproduction

The slender smooth-hound is ovoviviparous giving birth to two young per litter.

References

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* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, "Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand", (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8


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