Endangered
Common smooth-hound
Mustelus mustelus
The common smooth-hound is a houndshark of the family Triakidae.
The shark or ray
While they can grow to 200 centimetres (80 inches), their usual maximum size is 150 cm (60 in).
Range and habitat
It is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean from the British Isles to South Africa, and in the Mediterranean Sea, Madeira, and the Canary Islands at depths ranging from 5 to 625 metres (20 to 2,050 feet), although they usually stay at depths of 5 to 50 m (20 to 160 ft).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Sharks and rays grow slowly and have few young. A fishery that treats them as bycatch can empty a coastal form.
In crisis
Common smooth-hound is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Common smooth-hound, Wikidata item Q260097. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
