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A New Eastern North Pacific Smoothhound Shark (Genus Mustelus, Family Triakidae) from the Gulf of California [Copeia 2005] latin dict size=131   common dict size=582
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Subject A New Eastern North Pacific Smoothhound Shark (Genus Mustelus, Family Triakidae) from the Gulf of California [Copeia 2005]
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A New Eastern North Pacific Smoothhound Shark (Genus Mustelus, Family Triakidae) from the Gulf of California [Copeia 2005]

A New Eastern North Pacific Smoothhound Shark (Genus Mustelus, Family
Triakidae) from the Gulf of California

JUAN CARLOS PE´ REZ JIME´NEZ, OSCAR SOSA NISHIZAKI, AND JOSE´ LEONARDO CASTILLO GENIZ

A new Smoothhound shark, Mustelus hacat, is described from the eastern North
Pacific. Four species of the genus Mustelus had been previously recognized in this area: M. californicus, M. henlei, M. lunulatus, and M. dorsalis. Mustelus hacat is described on the basis of 36 specimens caught in the Gulf of California. Among the Smoothhound sharks in the eastern North Pacific, M. hacat is distinguished mainly by having color uniform dark gray-brown above, white below, with conspicuously white tips and trailing edges of dorsal, pectoral, anal, and caudal fins; upper jaw teeth cuspidate and distinctly asymmetric, with low rounded cusp and prominent cusplet present in teeth of juveniles; upper jaw labial folds notably longer than lower jaw labial folds; and inter-nostril and inter-orbital space wide. Because these species have long been misidentified, we present a key to species using morphological and morphometric features found to be useful taxonomic characters to distinguish them.

En este trabajo describimos una nueva especie de tiburo´n Musola, Mustelus hacat, del Pacı´fico Noreste. Previamente, en esta a´rea habı´an sido reconocidas cuatro especies del ge´nero Mustelus: M. californicus, M. henlei, M. lunulatus, y M. dorsalis. Mustelus hacat es descrita con base en 36 especimenes que fueron capturados en el Golfo de California. Entre los tiburones del ge´nero presentes en el Pacı´fico Noreste, M. hacat es distinguido principalmente por su patro´n de coloracio´ n, el cual es cafe´-gris oscuro uniforme arriba, blanco abajo, con puntas y bordes posteriores blancos en aletas dorsales, pectorales, anal y caudal; la forma de sus dientes, los cuales son notablemente asime´tricos, con una cu´ spide redonda, y una cu´spide accesoria prominente en los dientes de juveniles; por tener pliegues labiales superiores notablemente ma´s largos que los pliegues labiales inferiores; y espacios inter-narial e inter-orbital amplios. Debido a que estas especies han sido mal identificadas desde hace mucho tiempo, presentamos una clave dicoto´mica usando caracterı´sticas morfolo´ gicas y morfome´-tricas que han mostrado ser caracteres taxono´micos u´ tiles para distinguirlas.

Holotype of Mustelus hacat, SIO 04-187, female, 113 cm TL. (A) Holotype, (B) ventral view of head, (C) upper teeth, (D) lower teeth, (E) upper teeth of a 30 cm TL neonate, paratype SIO 65-292-5, and (F) denticles.

Source: Copeia - http://www.cicese.mx

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