Flathead catshark
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| Apristurus macrorhynchus (Tanaka, 1909) |
The flathead catshark, Apristurus macrorhynchus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae in the order Carcharhiniformes, found in deep water in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its length is up to 66 cm.
The flathead catshark is a little-known deepwater bottom shark. It is dark coloured with a long flattened snout with prominent nostrils and unusual gill slits that leave the tips of the gill filaments exposed.
The flathead catshark is oviparous with one egg per oviduct.
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- "Apristurus macrorhynchus". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
