Largenose catshark

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Largenose catshark
Conservation status
Data deficient
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Scyliorhinidae
Genus: Apristurus
Species: A. nasutus
Binomial name
Apristurus nasutus
de Buen, 1959

The largenose catshark, Apristurus nasutus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the upper continental slopes in the eastern Pacific from the Gulf of Panama, Ecuador and central Chile, between latitudes 9° N and 28° S. Its length is up to 70 cm.

Reproduction is oviparous.

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