Freckled catshark

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Freckled catshark
Conservation status
Data deficient
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Scyliorhinidae
Genus: Scyliorhinus
Species: S. haeckelii
Binomial name
Scyliorhinus haeckelii
(Miranda-Ribeiro, 1907)

The freckled catshark, Scyliorhinus haeckelii, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the continental shelf and upper slope from the western Atlantic from western Venezuela, Suriname, Brazil, and Uruguay between latitudes 11° N and 32° S, at depths of between 40 and 5,220 m. Its length is up to 35 cm.

Reproduction is oviparous.

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