Broadfin sawtail catshark

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Broadfin sawtail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Scyliorhinidae
Genus: Galeus
Species: G. nipponensis
Binomial name
Galeus nipponensis
Nakaya, 1975

The broadfin sawtail, Galeus nipponensis, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the northwest Pacific from Japan and the Kyūshū-Palau Ridge between latitudes 34° N and 7° N. Its length is up to 70 cm.

Reproduction is oviparous, with possibly a single egg laid per oviduct.

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