Ornate dogfish
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| Centroscyllium ornatum (Alcock, 1889) |
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 Range of ornate dogfish (in blue)
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The ornate dogfish, Centroscyllium ornatum, is a little-known deepwater dogfish shark found on the upper continental slopes of the Indian Ocean, in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, at depths of between 520 and 1,260 m. Its length is up to 30 cm, and its reproduction is ovoviviparous.
[edit] References
- "Centroscyllium ornatum". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. 06 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
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