Highfin dogfish
Highfin dogfish | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Squaliformes |
Family: | Etmopteridae |
Genus: | Centroscyllium |
Species: | C. excelsum |
Binomial name | |
Centroscyllium excelsum Shirai & Nakaya, 1990 | |
Range of highfin dogfish (in blue) |
The highfin dogfish, Centroscyllium excelsum, is a sleeper shark of the family Etmopteridae, found in the northwest Pacific Ocean on the Emperor Seamount chain between latitudes 50 and 38°N, at depths between 800 and 1,000 m. It reaches a length of 63 cm.
The highfin dogfish is ovoviviparous.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Centroscyllium excelsum" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
External links
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