Blacktip tope

Blacktip tope

Taxobox
name = Blacktip tope
status = LR/nt | status_system = IUCN2.3
trend =


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Carcharhiniformes
familia = Triakidae
genus = "Hypogaleus"
genus_authority = Smith, 1957
species = "H. hyugaensis"
binomial = "Hypogaleus hyugaensis"
binomial_authority = (Miyosi, 1939)
The blacktip tope, "Hypogaleus hyugaensis", is a hound shark of the family Triakidae, the only member of the genus "Hypogaleus", found in deep water on the continental shelf in the Indo-West Pacific from East Africa and the Persian Gulf to Taiwan and Japan, and reported from Australia, at depths of between 40 and 230 m. Its length is up to 1.27 m long.

The blacktip tope is dull grey dorsally, paler below, and the front part of snout is slightly dusky. It feeds on bony fishes and cephalopods, and is utilized as a food fish.

Reproduction is viviparous.

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