Pacific spadenose shark
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Subdivision: Selachimorpha
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Carcharhinidae
Genus: Scoliodon
Species:
S. macrorhynchos
Binomial name
Scoliodon macrorhynchos
(Bleeker, 1852)
Synonyms

Carcharias macrorhynchos (Bleeker, 1852)

The Pacific spadenose shark (Scoliodon macrorhynchos) is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae. It was once regarded as conspecific to the spadenose shark (S. laticaudus).[1]

Virology

Pacific spadenose sharks are identified as hosts of the Flavivirus Wenzhou shark flavivirus.[2] While currently unknown if Wenzhou shark flavivirus causes disease in infected shark hosts, it is thought that the virus moves horizontally from the gazami crab Portunus trituberculatus to shark hosts[3] in a manner similar to other Flavivirus infections such as Dengue virus, which cycle horizontally between arthropod (mosquito) and vertebrate hosts.

References

  1. ↑ White, W.T., Last, P.R. & Naylor, G.J.P. (2010) Scoliodon macrorhynchos (Bleerer, 1852), a second species of spadenose shark from the western Pacific (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae). pp. 61–76. In: P.R. Last, W.T. White, J.J. Pogonoski (eds) Descriptions of New Sharks and Rays from Borneo. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 032, 165 pp.
  2. ↑ Shi M, Lin XD, Chen X, Tian JH, Chen LJ, Li K; et al. (2018). "The evolutionary history of vertebrate RNA viruses". Nature. 556 (7700): 197–202. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0012-7. PMID 29618816. S2CID 256771319.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Parry R, Asgari S (2019). "Discovery of Novel Crustacean and Cephalopod Flaviviruses: Insights into the Evolution and Circulation of Flaviviruses between Marine Invertebrate and Vertebrate Hosts". J Virol. 93 (14). doi:10.1128/JVI.00432-19. PMC 6600200. PMID 31068424.


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