Chaenogaleus affinis (Probst, 1879)

Höltke, Olaf, Salvador, Rodrigo B. & Rasser, Michael W., 2023, Trophic relationships in the Early Miocene Upper Marine Molasse of Baden-Württemberg, Southwest Germany, with special emphasis on the elasmobranch fauna, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 46) 26 (3), pp. 1-38 : 34

Chaenogaleus affinis (Probst, 1879)

Tooth type: Cutting-clutching.

The only recent congener is C. macrostoma (Bleeker, 1852) , which lives on continental and insular shelves down to 160 m depth (Compagno et al., 2005). Its biology is poorly known (Ebert et al., 2021), but C. macrostoma probably feeds on small fishes, cephalopods and crustaceans (Compagno, 1984). Froese and Pauly (2019) indicated a TL of 4.2 ±0.57 for C. macrostoma .