Largenose catshark explained

The largenose catshark (Apristurus nasutus) is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae. The largenose catshark is found on the upper continental slopes in the eastern Pacific, from the Gulf of Panama to Ecuador and central Chile, between 9°N and 28°S. It can grow up to 70 cm. Its reproduction is oviparous. This nose shark is considered to be a harmless species. It is known to originate from the Gulf of Panama, Ecuador, and Central Chile.

This organism has a reported length of between 50-70 cm. The organism lives mostly on the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Though the biology on this species is not much known, this organism tends to stay together with the same organisms/traveling as a pack. These species are harmless to humans and are known as “oviparous breeding species”.Parasites of the largenose catshark, studied off Chile, include Monogeneans, Cestodes, and Nematodes.^[1]

Further reading

• • Acevedo-Cervantes . Alejandro . López-Martínez . Juana . Herrera-Valdivia . Eloisa . Rodríguez-Romero . Jesús . Nuevo registro del tiburón narizón, Apristurus nasutus de Buen, 1959, (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) en el Golfo de California, México . New record of Largenose Catshark, Apristurus nasutus de Buen, 1959, (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) in the Gulf of California, Mexico . Spanish . Hidrobiológica . December 2009 . 19 . 3 . 269–272 .

Notes and References

1. Espínola-Novelo . Juan F. . Escribano . Rubén . Oliva . Marcelo E. . Metazoan parasite communities of two deep-sea elasmobranchs: the southern lanternshark, Etmopterus granulosus, and the largenose catshark, Apristurus nasutus, in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean . Parasite . 2018 . 25 . 53 . 10.1051/parasite/2018054 . 30457552 . 6244290 .