Mosaic gulper shark

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iMosaic gulper shark
Conservation status
Data deficient (DD)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Centrophoridae
Genus: Centrophorus
Species: C. tessellatus
Binomial name
Centrophorus tessellatus
(Garman, 1906)

The mosaic gulper shark Centrophorus tessellatus is a small, rare deepwater dogfish, found in the Pacific Ocean around Honshū, Japan and the Hawaiian Islands at depths of between 260 and 730 m.

The mosaic gulper shark has no anal fin, two dorsal fins with large spines, the second dorsal relatively high, almost as high as first, large eyes, angular extended free tips on the pectoral fins, and a moderately notched caudal fin. It has a maximum length of 89 cm.

Little is known about the mosaic gulper shark.

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