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Apristurus kampae Taylor, 1972

Longnose catshark
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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Of no interest to fisheries but is incidentally taken in deep trawls and sablefish traps off California (Ref. 244). Recorded from Cape Blanco, Oregon (Ref. 96339).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Compagno, L.J.V., 1984
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Elasmobranquios (tiburones y rayas) (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);  kampae: In honor of Elizabeth Kampa Boden (1922-1986), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, chief scientist aboard the research vessel Argos, from which holotype was collected. (See ETYFish).

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

marino batidemersal; rango de profundidad ? - 1888 m (Ref. 58018).   Deep-water; 38°N - 23°N

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Eastern Central Pacific: central and southern California, USA and Gulf of California. A report of a specimen from the Galapagos may be another species of uncertain identity (Ref. 6478) or a conspecific of this species.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 58.4 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 244); 52.0 cm TL (female)

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Found on the eastern Pacific upper continental slope. Oviparous, with a single egg laid per oviduct.

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

Oviparous, paired eggs are laid. Embryos feed solely on yolk (Ref. 50449).

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Compagno, L.J.V., 1984. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 4. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Part 2 - Carcharhiniformes. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(4/2):251-655. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 244)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 19 March 2014

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless




Human uses

Pesquerías: pesquerías de subsistencia
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 4.5 - 8.8, mean 5.4 (based on 20 cells).
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).
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  3.9   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resiliencia (Ref. 120179):  Muy bajo, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo superior a 14 años (Fec=2).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate vulnerability (43 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Low.