Japanese velvet dogfish

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Japanese velvet dogfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Dalatiidae
Genus: Scymnodon
Species: S. ichiharai
Binomial name
Scymnodon ichiharai
Yano & Tanaka, 1984

The Japanese velvet dogfish, Scymnodon ichiharai, is a harmless deepwater sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, found in the northwest Pacific from Suruga Bay and adjacent waters of Japan at depths of between 500 and 800 m. Reproduction is ovoviviparous.

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