Azores dogfish | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Squaliformes |
Family: | Somniosidae |
Genus: | Scymnodalatias |
Species: | S. garricki |
Binomial name | |
Scymnodalatias garricki Kukuyev & Konovalenko, 1988 |
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Range of the Azores dogfish (in blue) |
The Azores dogfish, Scymnodalatias garricki, is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae. It is known only from the holotype caught north of the Azores.