FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes Western

Squalidae 1229
Squaliolus aliae Teng, 1959
En - Smalleye pigmy shark.
Maximum total length about 22 cm.Together with the following species possibly the smallest living shark.
Epipelagic or mesopelagic near continental and island land masses; makes diurnal migrations probably
from within 200 m of the surface at night down to about 2 000 m during the day. Feeds on cephalopods
and small bony fish. Without interest to fisheries. Western Pacific from Japan to Australia.
(after Last and Stevens, 1994)
Squaliolus laticaudus Smith and Radcliffe, 1912
En - Spined pygmy shark; Fr - Squale nain; Sp - Tollo pigmeo espinudo.
Maximum total length about 25 cm. Epipelagic near continental and island land masses, usually
over the slopes at depths of 200 to 500 m. Feeds on deep-water squid and bony fish. Without interest
to fisheries. Oceanic and nearly circumtropical.
Squalus japonicus Ishikawa, 1908
En - Japanese spurdog; Fr - Aiguillat togari; Sp - Galludo japones.
Maximum total length about 91 cm. On the outer continental and insular shelves and uppermost
slopes at depths of 150 to 300 m, presumably on or near bottom. Interest to fisheries unknown.
Southeastern Japan to the East China Sea, including Korea and the Philippines.