Species profile—Squaliolus aliae (smalleye pygmy shark)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) → Squalidae (dogfishes) → Squaliolus aliae (smalleye pygmy shark)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
- Family
- Squalidae (dogfishes)
- Scientific name
- Squaliolus aliae Teng, 1959
- Common name
- smalleye pygmy shark
- Type reference
- Teng, H.-T. (1959). Studeis [sic] on the elasmobranch fishes from Formosa. Pt. 4. Squaliolus alii, a new species of deep sea squaloid shark from Tung-Kang, Formosa. Rep. Lab. Fish. Biol. Taiwan 1-6.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 29804
- 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=29804.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
