The whitetip weasel shark ''(Paragaleus leucolomatus)'' is a
weasel shark
The weasel sharks are a family, the 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 .
Most species are small, reaching no more than l ...
of the
family Hemigaleidae
The weasel sharks are a family, the 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 .
Most species are small, reaching no more than ...
. Only one specimen, caught off
Kosi Bay,
South Africa, has been caught. That specimen was 96 cm long. In 2020, a fuzzy image believed to be this shark was obtained on the show
Extinct or Alive.
The reproduction of this shark is
viviparous.
References
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Paragaleus
Fish described in 1985
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