Broadnose catshark

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Broadnose catshark
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Scyliorhinidae
Genus: Apristurus
Species: A. investigatoris
Binomial name
Apristurus investigatoris
(Misra, 1962)

The broadnose catshark, Apristurus investigatoris, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae the holotype and only specimen being found in deepwater in the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean between latitudes 16° N and 10° N. Its length is 26 cm, although this is an immature specimen.

Reproduction is oviparous.

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