Family : Hemigaleidae (Weasel sharks)
Order : Carcharhiniformes  (ground sharks)
Class : Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays)
Fishbase Name : Snaggletooth shark
Fish Name : Hemipristis elongata
Max size : 240 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 5578)
Environment : demersal ; depth range 1 - 130 m
Climate : tropical; 41°N - 34°S
Global Importance : fisheries: commercial
Resilience: Very low, minimum population doubling time more than 14 years (Fec=2)Distribution : Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea and southeast Africa to Philippines, north to China, south to Australia.
Diagnosis : Dorsal spines (total): 0-0; Anal spines: 0-0. A slender weasel shark with a long, broadly rounded snout, large curved, saw-edged teeth in the upper jaw, and hooked lower teeth protruding from mouth; gill slits long; fins strongly curved (Ref. 5578). Light grey or bronzy with no prominent markings (Ref. 5578).
Biology : A coastal species, found inshore and offshore on the continental and insular shelves (Ref. 244). Feeds on sharks, rays and bony fishes (Ref. 244); also cephalopods (Ref. 13567). Viviparous (Ref. 50449). Thought to be potentially dangerous because of its large, fearsome teeth and shallow-water habitat, but has not been recorded in an attack on people (Ref. 244). Caught regularly by inshore gillnet, bottom trawl (occasionally) and longline fisheries (Ref.58048). Regularly taken in artisanal fisheries (Ref. 13567). Utilized fresh for human consumption, liver processed for vitamins, fins used in the oriental shark fin trade, and by-products processed into fishmeal (Ref. 244). Most adults below 200 cm (Ref. 30573)
Threatened : Dangerous:  
Dangerous : traumatogenic , Fischer, W., I. Sousa, C. Silva, A. de Freitas, J.M. Poutiers, W. Schneider, T.C. Borges, J.P. Feral and A. Massinga. 1990
Coordinator :
Main Ref : Compagno, L.J.V.. 1984. (Ref. 244)

India country information
Common Names : Elliot's grey shark, புதுக்கண், பெதுக்கன், அடுக்குப்பல் சுரா, Adugupal sorrah, Adugupal-sorrah, Datri, Fossil shark, Pal sorrah, Pal-sorrah, Peducan, Pingal, Puducan
Status : native
Salinity : marine
Uses : no uses