Apristurus nakayai, Milk-eye catshark : fisheries

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Apristurus nakayai Iglésias, 2013

Milk-eye catshark
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Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) > Carcharhiniformes (Ground sharks) > Pentanchidae (Deepwater catsharks)
Etymology: Apristurus: a-, Latin privative, i.e., without; pristis, from pristes (Gr.), sawyer (but here meaning saw); oura (Gr.), tail, referring to absence of saw-toothed crest of enlarged dermal denticles along upper edge of caudal fin as found in the closely related Pristiurus (=Galeus). (See ETYFish);  nakayai: In honor of ichthyologist Kazuhiro Nakaya (b. 1945), Hokkaido University (Japan), who has dedicated his research on Apristurus, describing eight new species and revising the genus in 2009. (See ETYFish).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; bathypelagic; depth range 953 - 1022 m (Ref. 93246). Deep-water; 21°S - 22°S, 157°E - 158°E (Ref. 93246)

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Pacific Ocean: New Caledonia.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 67.6 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 93246)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

A medium-sized species of Apristurus of the brunneus group with the following combination of characters: shiny white iris on fresh specimen; brownish black colouration; short interspace from P1 free rear tip to P2 origin, subequal to internarial width; midpoint of the total length located well behind cloaca; pectoral fins large, width about 2.7 times P1 tip-P2 origin; long anal-fin base, longer than D1 insertion-D2 insertions; first dorsal fin located well behind pelvic-fin insertion; first dorsal fin markedly smaller than second one; long caudal fin terminal lobe, its length more than twice its height; no denticles in the mouth; very short pyloric stomach; intestinal spiral valves 16; monospondylous vertebrae 36; precaudal diplospondylous vertebrae 37 (Ref. 92346).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Iglésias, S.P., 2012. Apristurus nakayai sp. nov., a new species of deepwater catshark (Chondrichthyes: Pentanchidae) from New Caledonia. Cybium 36(4):511-519. (Ref. 93246)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 22 November 2019

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Fisheries:
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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00355 (0.00176 - 0.00714), b=3.09 (2.91 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.9   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate to high vulnerability (47 of 100).