Straight-tooth weasel shark
Encyclopedia
The straight-tooth weasel shark, Paragaleus tengi, is a weasel shark of the family
Hemigaleidae
, found in the tropical western Pacific Ocean
. Its length is up to 88 cm.
Reproduction is viviparous.
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Hemigaleidae
Hemigaleidae
The weasel sharks are a family, Hemigaleidae, of ground sharks found from the eastern Atlantic Ocean to the continental Indo-Pacific. They are found in shallow coastal waters to a depth of 100 m ....
, found in the tropical western Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
. Its length is up to 88 cm.
Reproduction is viviparous.