Common names
Musola manchada, Emissole grivelée, Gummy shark, Rig, Smooth-hound, Spotted dogfish, Spotted estuary rig, Spotted estuary smooth hound, Spotted estuary smooth-hound, Spotted smoothhound

Short Description
Diagnosis after Compagno, 1984 [517]: Body fairly slender. Head short, prepectoral length 17 to 21% of total length; snout moderately long and bluntly angular in lateral view, preoral snout 5.9 to 7.3% of total length, preorbital snout 6.6 to 8.2% of total length; internarial space moderate, 2.4 to 2.9% of total length; eyes fairly large, eye length 1.8 to 3.2 times in preorbital snout and 2.4 to 4.4% of total length; interorbital space fairly broad, 4.1 to 5.2% of total length; mouth short, subequal to eye length and 2.6 to 3.5% of total length; upper labial furrows considerably longer than lowers, upper furrows 1.9 to 2.9% of total length; teeth molariform and asymmetric, with cusp reduced to a low point; condition of buccopharyngeal denticles unknown. Interdorsal space 18 to 24% of total length; trailing edges of dorsal fins denticulate, without bare ceratotrichia; first dorsal broadly triangular, with posteroventrally sloping posterior margin, its midbase closer to pelvic bases than to pectorals; pectoral fins fairly large and broad, length of anterior margins 12 to 16% of total length, width of posterior margin 8.7 to 17% of total length; pelvic fins moderately large, anterior margin length 7.2 to 8.7% of total length; anal height 2.7 to 4.3% of total length; anal-caudal space somewhat greater than second dorsal height, 6.5 to 8.7% of total length; ventral caudal lobe not strongly falcate in adults. Crowns of lateral trunk denticles lanceolate, with longitudinal ridges possibly extending their entire length. Skeleton not hypercalcified in adults; palatoquadrates not subdivided; monospondylous precaudal centra 35 to 41, diplospondylous precaudal centra 50 to 56, precaudal centra 87 to 95. Colour grey or grey-brown, above, light below, usually with numerous white spots but lacking dark spots or dark bars. Development ovoviviparous. Size large, adults 78 to 137 cm.

Distribution
Southwest Pacific: Kermadec Islands (Ref. 8879) and New Zealand; reported from southern Australia (Ref. 9258). Source: www.gbif.org

Human uses
fisheries: commercial; gamefish: yes

Biology
Ovoviviparous, embryos feed solely on yolk [733]. With 2 to 37 young born at 20-32 cm [578].

Size / Weight / Age
125 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 9072)); 151 cm TL (female)

Habitat
demersal; oceanodromous (Ref. 54100); marine; depth range 0 - 860 m [578]

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=3801;

Parasites (arranged by Jürgen Pollerspöck)
Cestoda

• Calliobothrium tylotocephalum Alexander, 1963 [16245]
• Calliobothrium verticillatum (Rudolphi, 1819) [16245]
• Coronocestus coronatus (Robinson, 1959) [16384] [16245] [16430] [19536]
• Phyllobothrium lactuca Van Beneden, 1850 [16245] [16443]
• Symcallio eschrichti (Van Beneden, 1850) [16245]
• Symcallio schneiderae (Pickering & Caira, 2008) [16106] [21796]