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Whitetip weasel shark

<p>The <b>whitetip weasel shark</b> <i>(<b>Paragaleus leucolomatus</b>)</i> is a <a href="/en/Weasel_shark" title="Weasel shark" class="mw-redirect wl">weasel shark</a> of the <a href="/en/Family_(biology)" title="Family (biology)" class="wl">family</a> <a href="/en/Hemigaleidae" title="Hemigaleidae" class="wl">Hemigaleidae</a>. Only one specimen, caught off <a href="/en/Kosi_Bay" title="Kosi Bay" class="wl">Kosi Bay</a>, <a href="/en/South_Africa" title="South Africa" class="wl">South Africa</a>, has been caught.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/en/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" class="wl"><span>citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> That specimen was 96<span>&nbsp;</span>cm long. In 2020, a fuzzy image believed to be this shark was obtained on the show <a href="/en/Extinct_or_Alive" title="Extinct or Alive" class="wl">Extinct or Alive</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/en/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" class="wl"><span>citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p>

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<td colspan="2"><div style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-default-size"><span><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Status_iucn3.1_VU.svg/220px-Status_iucn3.1_VU.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="137" data-file-type="drawing" height="59" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Status_iucn3.1_VU.svg/330px-Status_iucn3.1_VU.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Status_iucn3.1_VU.svg/440px-Status_iucn3.1_VU.svg.png 2x" alt="Status_iucn3.1_VU.svg"></span></span><br><a href="/en/Vulnerable_species" title="Vulnerable species" class="wl">Vulnerable</a> <small><span>&nbsp;</span>(<a href="/en/IUCN_Red_List" title="IUCN Red List" class="wl">IUCN 3.1</a>)<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-iucn_status_19_November_2021_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-iucn_status_19_November_2021-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span></small></div></td></tr>

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<td><a href="/en/Hemigaleidae" title="Hemigaleidae" class="wl">Hemigaleidae</a></td></tr>
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<td>Species:</td>
<td><div style="display:inline" class="species"><i><b>P.<span>&nbsp;</span>leucolomatus</b></i></div></td></tr>








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<td colspan="2" style="text-align: center"><b><span class="binomial"><i>Paragaleus leucolomatus</i></span></b><br><div style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/en/Leonard_Joseph_Victor_Compagno" title="Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno" class="mw-redirect wl">Compagno</a> &amp; <span class="new">Smale</span>, 1985</div></td></tr>
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<p>The reproduction of this shark is <a href="/en/Viviparous" title="Viviparous" class="mw-redirect wl">viviparous</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/en/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" class="wl"><span>citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p>



The whitetip weasel shark is a weasel shark of the family Hemigaleidae. Only one specimen, caught off Kosi Bay, South Africa, has been caught. The reproduction of this shark is viviparous. 