|Scientific Name:||Apristurus internatus|
|Species Authority:||Deng, Xiong & Zhan, 1988|
|Taxonomic Notes:||The genus Apristurus contains at least 32 described species and a relatively large number of potentially undescribed ones. Morphological conservatism and, until recently, a lack of objectively defined characters makes this one of the most taxonomically confused shark genera (Compagno 1984, Nakaya and Sato 1999).
Nakaya and Sato (1999) defined three species groups within Apristurus: the longicephalus-group (two species), brunneus-group (20 species) and spongiceps-group (10 species). A. internatus belongs to the brunneus-group, characterized by: a short, wide snout (prenarial length < 6% TL); 13 to 22 valves in the spiral intestine; upper labial furrows obviously longer than the lower furrows; a discontinuous supraorbital sensory canal.
|Red List Category & Criteria:||Data Deficient ver 3.1|
|Assessor(s):||Duffy, C. & Huveneers, C.|
|Reviewer(s):||Kyne, P.M., Cavanagh, R.D. & Fowler, S.L. (Shark Red List Authority)|
Apristurus internatus is known only from the holotype (a 49.1 cm total length (TL) female) and a paratype (a 40.3 cm TL male), both caught in the East China Sea. Probably taken as bycatch in deepwater trawl fisheries. Insufficient information is available to assess this species beyond Data Deficient.
|Range Description:||This species is known only from the holotype, a 41.9 cm TL female, and the paratype, a 40.3 cm TL male, both from the East China Sea.|
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:||
Pacific – northwest
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|Population:||Known from only two specimens.|
|Habitat and Ecology:||Apristurus species are relatively small, sluggish sharks that live on or near the bottom on the upper continental slope. Diet includes crustaceans (penaeid shrimps, euphausiids), squids and small fishes. Where known reproduction is oviparous with one egg per oviduct. Egg cases are usually thick-walled and about 5 to 6.8 cm long and 2.5 to 2.9 cm case has a long weak fibrous thread on each corner. The posterior end usually has two small processes, each with a long coiled tendril. As in shallow water scyliorhinids the coiled tendrils are probably used to attach the egg cases to hard substrates and/or biogenic structures as they are laid.|
|Major Threat(s):||Probably taken as bycatch in deepwater trawl fisheries.|
|Conservation Actions:||No conservation measures are in place for this species.|
|Citation:||Duffy, C. & Huveneers, C. 2004. Apristurus internatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2015.|
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