Pacific spadenose shark | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
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]
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 Flavivirus infections such as Dengue virus, which cycle horizontally between arthropod (mosquito) and vertebrate hosts.
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Pacific spadenose shark | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
Family: | Carcharhinidae |
Genus: | Scoliodon |
Species: | S. macrorhynchos
|
Binomial name | |
Scoliodon macrorhynchos (
Bleeker, 1852)
| |
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]
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 Flavivirus infections such as Dengue virus, which cycle horizontally between arthropod (mosquito) and vertebrate hosts.
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cite journal}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)