Whitefin dogfish

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Whitefin dogfish
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Dalatiidae
Genus: Centroscyllium
Species: C. ritteri
Binomial name
Centroscyllium ritteri
Jordan & Fowler, 1903
Range of whitefin dogfish (in blue)
Range of whitefin dogfish (in blue)

The whitefin dogfish, Centroscyllium ritteri, is a little-known deepwater dogfish shark found in the northwest Pacific Ocean, endemic to Japan between latitudes 35° N and 32° N. Its length is up to 43 cm, and its reproduction is ovoviviparous.

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