Species profile—Galeus gracilis (slender sawtail catshark)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) → Scyliorhinidae → Galeus gracilis (slender sawtail catshark)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
- Family
- Scyliorhinidae
- Scientific name
- Galeus gracilis Compagno & Stevens, 1993
- Common name
- slender sawtail catshark
- Type reference
- Compagno, L.J.V. and Stevens, J.D. 1993. Galeus gracilis n. sp., a new sawtail catshark from Australia, with commments on the systematics of the genus *Galeus* Rafinesque, 1810 (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). Rec. Aust. Mus. 171-194
- WildNet taxon ID
- 22546
- Synonym(s)
- Galeus sp. A
- Alternate name(s)
- slender sawtail shark
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=22546.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
