Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Mustelus mento
tollo fino, musola fina, Speckled smoothhound
Subtropical:130 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 244), Males maturing at 65 to 76 cm TL, females maturing at 86 to 90 cm TL. Size at birth about 30 cm TL (Compagno et al. 2005).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Elasmobranchii
Order
Carcharhiniformes
Suborder
Galeomorphi
Family
Triakidae
Genus
Mustelus
Species
mento
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Galeorhinus mento (Cope, 1877), Mustelus abbotti Evermann & Radcliffe, 1917, Mustelus edulis Perez Canto, 1886, fide Appeltans et al. (2010)
Origin: Native
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Constant, P. (2007) Marine Life of the Galapagos. The Diver's guide to Fishes, Whales, Dolphins and marine Invertebrates, 307 pp.
- Froese, R. Pauly, D. (eds.) (2010) FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org
- Grove, J.S. Lavenberg, R.J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford California. 862 pp.
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- IUCN (2024) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2024-1. Https://www.iucnredlist.org
- McCosker, J.E. Rosenblatt, R.H. (2010) The fishes of the Galápagos Archipelago: an update. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., Ser. 4, vol. 61, Suppl. II, no. 11: 167-195.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Mustelus mento", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12781. Accessed 31 October 2026.