Species Profile
Scoliodon Laticaudus
Dogfish / Spadenose shark
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassChondrichthyes
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Scoliodon lives in coastal marine waters.
It is carnivorous and active.
Economically important edible fish.
Size & Structure
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Streamlined body
02
Five gill slits
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Heterocercal tail
04
Grey dorsal surface
Scoliodon Laticaudus — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well developed brain and spinal cord
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, single
- Development type
- Viviparous
- Respiratory type
- Branchial respiration through gills
- Mode of excretion
- Ureotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton (cartilaginous)
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Marine predator
Controls fish population
Part of marine food web
Economic Importance
Edible fish
Fisheries importance
Zoology practical specimen