FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes Western

1228 Sharks
Euprotomicrus bispinatus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824)
En - Pygmy shark; Fr - Squale pygmée; Sp - Tollo pigmeo.
Maximum total length about 27 cm. Occurs at or near the surface at night and apparently descends
to below 400 m (possibly as deep as 1 800 m) during the day. Feeds on squid, bony fishes, and
crustaceans. Without interest to fisheries. Oceanic and circumglobal in the tropical and temperate
oceans.
Isistius brasiliensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824)
En - Cookiecutter shark; Fr - Squalelet féroce; Sp - Tollo cigarro.
Maximum total length about 50 cm. Makes diurnal vertical migrations probably from below 1 000 m
in the day to or near the surface at night. Feeds on free-living deep-water prey, but is also a facultative
ectoparasite on larger marine organisms. Minor importance to fisheries in the area. Widespread
oceanic in temperate and tropical oceans.
Scymnodon squamulosus (Günther, 1877)
En - Velvet dogfish; Fr - Squale-grogneur velouté; Sp - Bruja terciopelo.
Maximum total length at least 84 cm. Demersal or pelagic near continental slopes and seamounts
in depths of 550 to 2 000 m. Without interest to fisheries. Western Atlantic (Gulf of Mexico, Surinam,
Brazil), eastern Atlantic from Iceland to Senegal, southern Africa and the western Pacific from
Japan, South China Sea, Australia, and New Zealand.
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