Springer's sawtail cat shark

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Springer's sawtail cat shark
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Scyliorhinidae
Genus: Galeus
Species: G. springeri
Binomial name
Galeus springeri
Konstantinou & Cozzi, 1998


The Springer's sawtail cat shark, Galeus springeri, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western central Atlantic from Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, the north coast of Hispaniola, and Cuba, at depths of between 450 and 700 m. Its length is up to 32 cm.

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