:Arabian smooth-hound

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| image = Mustelus mosis phuket.jpg

| status = NT

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Pollom, R. |author2=Jabado, R.W. |author3=Bennett, R. |author4=Elhassan, I. |author5=Fernando, S. |author6=Kuguru, B. |author7=Leslie, R. |author8=Moore, A. |author9=Simpfendorfer, C. |author10=Spaet, J. |date=2019 |title=Mustelus mosis |volume=2019 |page=e.T161480A139617441 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T161480A139617441.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Mustelus

| species = mosis

| authority = Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1899

| range_map = Mustelus mosis distmap.png

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The Arabian smooth-hound (Mustelus mosis) is a houndshark of the family Triakidae. It is found on the continental shelves of the tropical western Indian Ocean, from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Maldives, India, and Sri Lanka, between latitudes 30 and 7°N, at depths between {{cvt|20|and|250|m}}. It can reach a length of {{cvt|1.5|m}}.

References

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  • {{FishBase species| genus = Mustelus | species = mosis | month = July | year = 2006}}

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Arabian smooth-hound

Category:Marine fauna of West Asia

Category:Marine fauna of South Asia

Arabian smooth-hound

Category:Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Hemprich