Humpback smooth-hound Humpback smooth-hound The humpback smooth-hound ("Mustelus whitneyi") is a houndshark of the family Triakidae. It is found on the continental shelves of the tropical southeast Pacific, from Peru to southern Chile, between latitudes 3° S and 54° S, at depths between . Its conservation status is considered to be "vulnerable" by the IUCN. The humpback smooth-hound is a small shark growing to a length of up to . It has a sturdy body with a moderately long, broad, sharply angled snout and large eyes, set widely apart. The mouth is fairly long and the upper lip furrows are longer than
Sleuth hound Sleuth hound The sleuth hound (from Old Norse "slóð" "track, trail" + hound) was a breed of dog. Broadly, it was a Scottish term for what in England was called the bloodhound, although it seems that there were slight differences between them. It was also referred to as a 'slough dog', (or 'slewe dogge'), and a 'slow hound', the first word probably representing a mispronuciation of 'slough' rather than a reference to the speed of the hound. The sleuth hound first appears in poems about the Scottish patriots Robert the Bruce and William Wallace. These poems depict their heroes tracked