Despite the name " Mustelus felis " being the senior synonym, an error in recording the dates of publication resulted in the widespread use of " Triakis semifasciata " as the leopard shark's scientific name.
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From birth, leopard sharks form large schools generally segregated by age and sex, which may intermingle with grey or brown smoothhounds ( " Mustelus californicus " and " M . henlei " ) or spiny dogfish ( " Squalus acanthias " ).
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In Australia, they are caught by southern shark gillnet fishery, particularly in Bass Strait and south-east Tasmania, though this fishery targets the gummy shark, " Mustelus antarcticus, " and will sometimes discard ghostsharks due to the considerably lower price they fetch at market.
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The "'Australian grey smooth-hound "', or "'grey gummy shark "', ( " Mustelus ravidus " ) is a species of houndshark, belonging to the Triakidae, native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean waters surrounding Australia.
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In 1952, Philip Orkin advocated that " Pristiurus " take precedence over " Galeus ", based on David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann's ( possibly questionable ) designation of " G . mustelus " as a type species for " Galeus " in 1896.
