Mosaic gulper shark

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Mosaic gulper shark
Conservation status
Data deficient
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.

[edit] References

• Herndon & Burgess (2005). Centrophorus tessellatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is listed as data deficient
• Centrophorus tessellatus (TSN 649716). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 23 January 2006.
• FAO Species Catalogue Volume 4 Parts 1 and 2 Sharks of the World
• "Centrophorus tessellatus". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. 09 2005 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2005.