''Paragaleus'' is a genus of weasel shark in 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 lo ...
. This genus has a rounded or slightly pointed snout, short gill slits, and a broadly arched mouth.
The upper teeth have long cusps, and no toothless spaces occur at the jaw midlines. The dorsal and pelvic fins and the lower caudal lobe are not falchate in shape. Known fossil species include ''
P. pulchellus'' and ''
P. antunesi''.
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Whitetip weasel shark
The whitetip weasel shark ''(Paragaleus leucolomatus)'' is a weasel shark of the family Hemigaleidae. Only one specimen, in Kosi Bay, South Africa, has been caught. That specimen was long. In 2020, a fuzzy image believed to be this shark was o ...
(''Paragaleus leucolomatus'')
Compagno & Smale, 1985 (whitetip weasel shark
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Atlantic weasel shark (''Paragaleus pectoralis'')
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, 1906) (Atlantic weasel shark
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Slender weasel shark (''Paragaleus randalli'')
Compagno, Krupp
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& K. E. Carpenter, 1996 (slender weasel shark
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Straight-tooth weasel shark (''Paragaleus tengi'')
( J. S. T. F. Chen, 1963) (straight-tooth weasel shark
References
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Shark genera