Pacific spadenose shark
Pacific spadenose shark | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
Family: | Carcharhinidae |
Genus: | Scoliodon |
Species: | S. macrorhynchos
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Binomial name | |
Scoliodon macrorhynchos (Bleeker, 1852)
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Synonyms | |
Carcharias macrorhynchos (Bleeker, 1852) |
The Pacific spadenose shark (Scoliodon macrorhynchos) is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae. It was once regarded as conspecific to the spadenose shark (S. laticaudus).[1]
Virology[]
Pacific spadenose sharks are identified as hosts of the Flavivirus Wenzhou shark flavivirus.[2] While currently unknown if Wenzhou shark flavivirus causes disease in infected shark hosts, it is thought that the virus moves horizontally from the gazami crab Portunus trituberculatus to shark hosts[3] in a manner similar to other other Flavivirus infections such as Dengue virus, which cycle horizontally between arthropod (mosquito) and vertebrate hosts.
References[]
- ^ White, W.T., Last, P.R. & Naylor, G.J.P. (2010) Scoliodon macrorhynchos (Bleerer, 1852), a second species of spadenose shark from the western Pacific (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae). pp. 61–76. In: P.R. Last, W.T. White, J.J. Pogonoski (eds) Descriptions of New Sharks and Rays from Borneo. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 032, 165 pp.
- ^ Shi M, Lin XD, Chen X, Tian JH, Chen LJ, Li K; et al. (2018). "The evolutionary history of vertebrate RNA viruses". Nature. 556 (7700): 197–202. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0012-7. PMID 29618816.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ Parry R, Asgari S (2019). "Discovery of Novel Crustacean and Cephalopod Flaviviruses: Insights into the Evolution and Circulation of Flaviviruses between Marine Invertebrate and Vertebrate Hosts". J Virol. 93 (14). doi:10.1128/JVI.00432-19. PMC 6600200. PMID 31068424.
Categories:
- Scoliodon
- Fish described in 1852
- Shark stubs