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Encyclopedia > School Shark
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School shark
Conservation status: Vulnerable
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Triakidae
Genus: Galeorhinus
Blainville, 1816
Species: G. galeus
Binomial name
Galeorhinus galeus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The School Shark, also known as the Tope Shark, Soupfin Shark or Snapper Shark, Galeorhinus galeus is a shark that can be found at depths of up to 1,800 feet (550 m). It grows up to 6 feet (2 m) long. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria  Acoelomorpha  Orthonectida  Rhombozoa  Myxozoa  Superphylum Deuterostomia     Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates Ascideiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with... Orders see text The Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fishes are jawed fish with paired fins, paired nostrils, scales, two-chambered hearts, and skeletons made of cartilage. ... Superorders Galeomorpha Batoidea Selachimorpha Elasmobranchii is the subclass of cartilaginous fishes that includes skates, rays and sharks. ... Families Scyliorhinidae (cat sharks) Proscyllidae (finback cat sharks) Pseudotriakidae (false cat sharks) Leptochariidae (barbeled houndshark) Triakidae (hound sharks) Hemigaleidae (weasel sharks) Carcharhinidae (requiem sharks) The ground sharks, order Carcharhiniformes, are the largest order of sharks, with over 270 species, and includes a number of common types, such as the blue... Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (September 12, 1777 - May 1, 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... A painting of Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (   listen?), and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ...


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School shark (2499 words)
School shark catches peaked in 1969 and were still high at the end of the 1980s, but by then the fishing effort required to take this catch was 3 times that in the late 1960s.
An assessment of the southern shark stocks (school shark and gummy shark) at a workshop in October 1991 indicated that the adult population of school sharks is very depleted in parts of Bass Strait and gummy sharks are probably moderately overfished also.
School shark and gummy shark stocks are also adversely affected by other fisheries such as trawling, offshore longlining, the bay-and-inlet fisheries in Victoria, Danish seining and the recreational fishery in Tasmania where specialised gillnets are used.
Seafood Industry of Victoria (1008 words)
School and gummy sharks live over the continental shelf and slope from shallow estuaries to depths of 400 meters.
School and gummy shark were first sold as flake from the Melbourne Wholesale Fish Market in the late 1920's to serve a booming Fish 'n' Chip trade.
The proportion of school shark in the total catch is expected to decline as fishers stop targeting this species.
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