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Mustelus asterias
Cloquet, 1819
Starry smooth-hound
Classification: Elasmobranchii Carcharhiniformes Triakidae
Reference of the original description
Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, 14, 406–407
Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, 14, 406–407
Synonyms / new combinations and misspellings
Mustellus plebejus, Mustelus hinnulus, Mustelus plebejus, Mustelus stellatus, Squalus albomaculatus, Squalus hinnulus
Mustellus plebejus, Mustelus hinnulus, Mustelus plebejus, Mustelus stellatus, Squalus albomaculatus, Squalus hinnulus
Types
Mustelus asterias
XXXX: No types known;
Mustelus plebejus
XXXX: No types known;
Mustelus stellatus
XXXX: No types known;
Squalus albomaculatus
XXXX: No types known;
Squalus hinnulus
XXXX: No types known;
Mustelus asterias
XXXX: No types known;
Mustelus plebejus
XXXX: No types known;
Mustelus stellatus
XXXX: No types known;
Squalus albomaculatus
XXXX: No types known;
Squalus hinnulus
XXXX: No types known;
Description :
Citation: Mustelus asterias Cloquet, 1819: In: Database of modern sharks, rays and chimaeras, www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 12/2024
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Mustelus asterias Cloquet, 1821, Eastern Scheldt, North Sea ©Peter Verhoog, Dutch Shark Society
Mustelus asterias Cloquet, 1821, Eastern Scheldt, North Sea ©Peter Verhoog, Dutch Shark Society
Common names
Gefleckter Hundshai, Glatthai, Nördlicher Glatthai, Weißgefleckter Glatthai, 
Boca blanca, Cazón, Musola dentuda, Musola estrellada, Musola pintada, Tollo, 
Emissole tachetée, Missole, 
Smooth-hound, Starry smooth hound, Starry smooth-hound, Starry smoothhound, Starry smoothound, 
Cagnassetto, Cagneto, Cagnoleto, Can bianco, Can pontisà, Cane, Gattone, Mussola, Nicciolo, Nisseua, Nissoa, Nissola grisa, Nocciolo stellato, Palombo, Palombo nocciolo, Palombo stellato, Palomme, Palumbu, Palumme steddate, Palummo stelliate, Palummu "mperiali, Palummu pintu, Palummu senza denti, Palummu stilliatu, Sbriglio, Stellotto, Stire, 
Cação-pintado, Mazzola tat-tbajja (malta)
Gefleckter Hundshai, Glatthai, Nördlicher Glatthai, Weißgefleckter Glatthai, Boca blanca, Cazón, Musola dentuda, Musola estrellada, Musola pintada, Tollo, Emissole tachetée, Missole, Smooth-hound, Starry smooth hound, Starry smooth-hound, Starry smoothhound, Starry smoothound, Cagnassetto, Cagneto, Cagnoleto, Can bianco, Can pontisà, Cane, Gattone, Mussola, Nicciolo, Nisseua, Nissoa, Nissola grisa, Nocciolo stellato, Palombo, Palombo nocciolo, Palombo stellato, Palomme, Palumbu, Palumme steddate, Palummo stelliate, Palummu "mperiali, Palummu pintu, Palummu senza denti, Palummu stilliatu, Sbriglio, Stellotto, Stire, Cação-pintado, Mazzola tat-tbajja (malta)
Short Description
Diagnosis after Compagno, 1984 [517]: Body fairly slender. Head short, prepectoral length 13 to 17% of total length; snout moderately long and bluntly angular in lateral view, preoral snout 5.4 to 7.2% of total length, preorbital snout 5.7 to 7.2% of total length; internarial space fairly narrow, 2 to 2.6% of total length; eyes large, eye length 1.6 to 2.2 times in preorbital snout and 2.5 to 4.1% of total length; interorbital space relatively narrow, 3.4 to 4.5% of total length; mouth relatively short, subequal or smaller than eye length, its length 2.2 to 3.5% of total length; upper labial furrows considerably longer than lowers, upper furrows 1.8 to 2.5% of total length; teeth molariform and asymmetric, with cusp reduced to a low point, cusplets absent except in very young sharks; buccopharyngeal denticles covering entire palate and floor of mouth. Interdorsal space 19 to 25% of total length; trailing edges of dorsal fins denticulate, without bare ceratotrichia; pectoral fins moderate-sized, length of anterior margins 12 to 16% of total length, width of posterior margins 7.8 to 13% of total length; pelvic anterior margins 6.6 to 9.1% of total length; anal height 2.4 to 3.9% of total length; anal-caudal space usually greater than second dorsal height, 6.8 to 11% of total length; ventral caudal lobe not falcate in adults. Crowns of lateral trunk denticles broadly lanceolate, with longitudinal ridges extending at least half their lengths. Skeleton not hypercalcified in adults; palatoquadrates not subdivided; monospondylous precaudal centra 36 to 40, diplospondylous precaudal centra 49 to 61, precaudal centra 90 to 100. Colour grey or grey-brown, above, light below, usually with numerous small white spots on sides and back, but without dark spots or dark bars. Development ovoviviparous. Size large, adults 80 to 140 cm.
Diagnosis after Compagno, 1984 [517]: Body fairly slender. Head short, prepectoral length 13 to 17% of total length; snout moderately long and bluntly angular in lateral view, preoral snout 5.4 to 7.2% of total length, preorbital snout 5.7 to 7.2% of total length; internarial space fairly narrow, 2 to 2.6% of total length; eyes large, eye length 1.6 to 2.2 times in preorbital snout and 2.5 to 4.1% of total length; interorbital space relatively narrow, 3.4 to 4.5% of total length; mouth relatively short, subequal or smaller than eye length, its length 2.2 to 3.5% of total length; upper labial furrows considerably longer than lowers, upper furrows 1.8 to 2.5% of total length; teeth molariform and asymmetric, with cusp reduced to a low point, cusplets absent except in very young sharks; buccopharyngeal denticles covering entire palate and floor of mouth. Interdorsal space 19 to 25% of total length; trailing edges of dorsal fins denticulate, without bare ceratotrichia; pectoral fins moderate-sized, length of anterior margins 12 to 16% of total length, width of posterior margins 7.8 to 13% of total length; pelvic anterior margins 6.6 to 9.1% of total length; anal height 2.4 to 3.9% of total length; anal-caudal space usually greater than second dorsal height, 6.8 to 11% of total length; ventral caudal lobe not falcate in adults. Crowns of lateral trunk denticles broadly lanceolate, with longitudinal ridges extending at least half their lengths. Skeleton not hypercalcified in adults; palatoquadrates not subdivided; monospondylous precaudal centra 36 to 40, diplospondylous precaudal centra 49 to 61, precaudal centra 90 to 100. Colour grey or grey-brown, above, light below, usually with numerous small white spots on sides and back, but without dark spots or dark bars. Development ovoviviparous. Size large, adults 80 to 140 cm.
Distribution
Northeast Atlantic: British Isles and North Sea to Canary Islands, including the Mediterranean and Mauritania. Source: www.gbif.org
Northeast Atlantic: British Isles and North Sea to Canary Islands, including the Mediterranean and Mauritania. Source: www.gbif.org
Human uses
fisheries: commercial; gamefish: yes
fisheries: commercial; gamefish: yes
Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=3781;
shark-references Species-ID=3781;
Parasites (arranged by Jürgen Pollerspöck)
Monogenea
Cestoda
Trematoda
Nematoda
Copepoda
Monogenea
- Erpocotyle galeorhini (Price, 1942) [17150]
- Erpocotyle laevis Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863 [9358] [30772]
- Erpocotyle sp. [24848]
Cestoda
- Anthobothrium sp. [9358] [30772]
- Calliobothrium verticillatum (Rudolphi, 1819) [16314]
- Calliobothrium wightmanorum Bernot & Caira, 2016 [27483]
- Coronocestus musteli (Pintner, 1889) [16430]
- Crossobothrium dohrnii (Oerley, 1885) Ruhnke, 1996 [16443]
- Eutetrarhynchus sp. [30772]
- Heteronybelinia robusta (Linton, 1890) [17926] [16112] [30772]
- Orygmatobothrium sp. [30772]
- Phyllobothrium crispum (Molin, 1858) [16443]
- Phyllobothrium lactuca Van Beneden, 1850 [16443] [14629] [16908]
- Phyllobothrium sp. [30772]
- Scyphophyllidium triacis (Yamaguti, 1952) [16443]
- Symcallio eschrichti (Van Beneden, 1850) [16314]
- Symcallio leuckarti (Van Beneden, 1850) [27483] [30772]
Trematoda
- Ptychogonimus megastomum (Rudolphi, 1819) [30772]
Nematoda
- Acanthocheilus rotundatus (Rudolphi, 1819) [30772]
- Proleptus obtusus Dujardin, 1845 [30772]
- Proleptus sp. [9358]
Copepoda
- Eudactylina insolens Scott & Scott, 1913 [16609]
- Kroyeria carchariaeglauci Hesse, 1878 [16609]
- Kroyeria lineata Van Beneden, 1853 [16609] [9358] [30772]
- Lernaeopoda galei Krøyer, 1837 [16609]
- Nemesis robusta (Van Beneden, 1851) [16609]
- Perissopus dentatus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 [16609]
- Tripaphylus musteli (Van Beneden, 1851) [16609] [24848] [25539]
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