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View Mode View All Pictures Species Hemipristis elongata (Klunzinger 1871)    Hemipristis elongata was originally described as Dirrhizodon elongata by Klunzinger in 1871. It belongs to the family Hemigaleidae. It is commonly known as Snaggletooth shark and is known in Australia as Fossil shark , in South Africa as Snaggletooth, in Sodwana as Lostandhaai, in Sodwana as Snaggletooth. more common names It is found in Salt water and its distribution is Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines, north to southern China, south to northern Australia.   Species Species   Higher Taxa Higher Taxa   Original Original   Subspecies Subspecies   Current Current   General General   Name History Name History   Related Pages Related Pages   Species of this Genus Species of this Genus   Species   elongata AuthorWI   Klunzinger [C. B.] AuthorNI   Klunzinger Qualification   --- Year   1871 Status   Valid Class   Chondrichthyes Chondrichthyes Order   Carcharhiniformes Carcharhiniformes Family   Hemigaleidae Subfamily   --- --- Genus   Hemipristis Subgenus   --- Class   Chondrichthyes Order   Carcharhiniformes Family   Hemigaleidae Genus   Hemipristis Original Name   Dirrhizodon         Taxon Name   elongatus Original Combination   Dirrhizodon elongatus Original Genus   Dirrhizodon Original Genus Species   Dirrhizodon elongatus OriginalSubGenus   Dirrhizodon Original Author   Klunzinger Original AuthorWI   Klunzinger [C. B.] Original Qualification   --- Original Year   1871 Original Family   Hemigaleidae Original SubFamily   --- Original Level   species Type Locality   Al-Qusair, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, Red Sea. Type Catalogue   Type catalog: Fricke 1992:7 [ref. 20296], Fricke 2005:42 [ref. 29864]. Primary Code   Holotype (unique) Primary Type   SMNS 1640 (dry, not found, probably lost) Page   665 SubSpecies AuthorWI   --- Qualification SS   --- Original QualificationSS   --- Current Subspecies AuthorWI   --- Current Genus Species   Hemipristis elongata Current Species   elongata Current Genus   Hemipristis Current AuthorWI   Chu [Y.-T.] Current AuthorNI   Chu Current Year   1871 Current Family   Hemigaleidae Current Subfamily   --- --- Habitat demersal         Water Salt water Depth Range From 1 to 130 meters.     Distribution Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines, north to southern China, south to northern Australia. Current Summary   Valid as Hemipristis elongata  (Klunzinger 1871). Hemigaleidae.   Name History   • Valid as Hemipristis elongatus  (Klunzinger 1871) -- (Compagno 1984:440 [ref. 6846], Paxton et al. 1989:81 [ref. 12442], Compagno 1998:1310 [ref. 23785], Morón et al. 1999:146 [ref. 24253], Compagno 1999:482 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:579 [ref. 25122], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S92 [ref. 27377]). • Valid as Hemipristis elongata  (Klunzinger 1871) -- (Dor 1984:8 [ref. 29757], Bass et al. 1986:79 [ref. 5638], Last & Stevens 1994:219 [ref. 23873], Goren & Dor 1994:4 [ref. 25356], Hutchins 2001:14 [ref. 25847], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:25 [ref. 27735], Hoese & Gates 2006:95 [ref. 28997], Compagno et al. 2005:34 [ref. 29145], Last el al. 2010:82 [ref. 32461], Moore et al. 2012:7 [ref. 31771], Larson et al. 2013:7 [ref. 32988], White & Harris 2013:183 [ref. 33038], Ebert et al. 2013:327 [ref. 33045]). Common Names  Common Names Picture  Picture Places  Places Hierarchy  Hierarchy Pictures  Pictures First Publication  First Publication Collections  Collections Species Links  Species Links Name Combinations  Name Combinations References  References Page 1 of 1 (7 items). Click on a column heading to sort data. [1] Page size: 25 50 100 Drag a column header here to group by that column Species   Genus Species   Authorship   Status   acutiventris Hemipristis acutiventris (Chu [Y.-T.] 1960) Synonym brachygnathus Hemipristis brachygnathus (Chu [Y.-T.] 1960) Uncertain ellioti Hemipristis ellioti (Day [F.] 1878) Synonym elongatus Hemipristis elongatus (Klunzinger [C. B.] 1871) Spelling ghardaqensis Hemipristis ghardaqensis (Gohar [H. A. F.] & Mazhar [F. M. M.] 1964) Synonym machlani Hemipristis machlani (Herre [A. W. C. T.] 1929) Synonym pingali Hemipristis pingali Setna [S. B.] & Sarangdhar [P. N.] 1946 Synonym Begins with Contains Doesn't contain Ends with Equals Doesn't equal Is less than Is less than or equal to Is greater than Is greater than or equal to Like ('%', '_') Page 1 of 1 (7 items). Click on a column heading to sort data. [1] Page size: 25 50 100 Create Filter   Loading…