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Hooktooth Dogfish
Aculeola nigra
The hooktooth dogfish, Aculeola nigra, is a small, little-known dogfish, the only member of the genus Aculeola.
The type specimen is held at the National Natural History Museum, Santiago, Chile.
From the article Hooktooth dogfish on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The hooktooth dogfish has a blunt, flattened snout, very large eyes, a relatively long distance from the eye to the first gill slit, small grooved dorsal spines, a first dorsal fin about halfway between the pectoral and pelvic fins, and a broad caudal fin. They are black with a maximum length of only 60 cm.
Range & habitat
They are found in the eastern South Pacific along the coast of South America from Peru to central Chile.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 93405.