''Planonasus'' is a genus of ground sharks in the family
Pseudotriakidae
The Pseudotriakidae are a small family of ground sharks, belonging to the order Carcharhiniformes, containing the false catsharks (genera ''Pseudotriakis'' and ''Planonasus'') and gollumsharks (genus ''Gollum''). It contains the only ground sha ...
, native to the western
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...
.
Species
There are currently two species in this genus:
* ''P. parin
i''
( Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel, 2013) (
dwarf false catshark
The dwarf false catshark (''Planonasus parini'') is a species of ground shark, which lives in the Indian Ocean near Socotra. This species is one of two known members of its genus, the other being the pygmy false catshark off the coast of India, ...
)
* ''P. indicus''
( Ebert, Akhilesh, & Weigmann, 2018) (
pygmy false catshark)
References
Shark genera
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