Smooth-hound

The smooth-hounds are a genus, Mustelus, of sharks in the family Triakidae. The name of the genus comes from the Latin mustela meaning weasel.

Size

Species

• Gummy shark, Mustelus antarcticus Günther, 1870
• Starry smooth-hound, Mustelus asterias Cloquet, 1821
• Grey smooth-hound, Mustelus californicus Gill, 1864
• Dusky smooth-hound, Mustelus canis (Mitchill, 1815)
• Sharptooth smooth-hound, Mustelus dorsalis Gill, 1864
• Striped smooth-hound, Mustelus fasciatus (Garman, 1913)
• Spotless smooth-hound, Mustelus griseus Pietschmann, 1908
• Mustelus hacat Jiménez, Nishizaki & Geniz, 2005
• Brown smooth-hound, Mustelus henlei (Gill, 1863)
• Smalleye smooth-hound, Mustelus higmani Springer & Lowe, 1963
• Spotted estuary smooth-hound, Mustelus lenticulatus Phillipps, 1932
• Sicklefin smooth-hound, Mustelus lunulatus Jordan & Gilbert, 1882
• Starspotted smooth-hound, Mustelus manazo Bleeker, 1854
• Speckled smooth-hound, Mustelus mento Cope, 1877
• Mustelus minicanis Heemstra, 1997
• Arabian smooth-hound, Mustelus mosis Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1899
• Common smooth-hound, Mustelus mustelus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Narrowfin smooth-hound, Mustelus norrisi Springer, 1939
• Whitespotted smooth-hound, Mustelus palumbes Smith, 1957
• Blackspotted smooth-hound, Mustelus punctulatus Risso, 1827
• Mustelus ravidus White & Last, 2006
• Narrownose smooth-hound, Mustelus schmitti Springer, 1939
• Gulf smoothhound, Mustelus sinusmexicanus Heemstra, 1997
• Humpback smooth-hound, Mustelus whitneyi Chirichigno F., 1973
• Mustelus widodoi White & Last, 2006

References