Rhizoprionodon longurio (D.S.Jordan & C.H.Gilbert 1882)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Carcharhiniformes
- family
- Carcharhinidae
- genus
- Rhizoprionodon
- species
- Rhizoprionodon longurio
description
Pacific Sharpnose Shark. To 1.54 m (60.6 in) TL (Franke and Acero 1991). Long Beach, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Paita, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: intertidal to a least 27 m (89 ft) (min.: Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995; max.: Ebert et al. 2013), and perhaps to 100 m (328 ft) (Amezcua Linares 1996).