| Mosaic gulper shark | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Centrophoridae |
| Genus: | Centrophorus |
| Species: | C. tessellatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Centrophorus tessellatus (Garman, 1906) |
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| Range of mosaic gulper shark (in blue) | |
The mosaic gulper shark, Centrophorus tessellatus, is a small rare deepwater dogfish, found in the Pacific Ocean around Honshū, Japan and the Hawaiian Islands at depths of between 260 and 730 metres.
The mosaic gulper shark has no anal fin, two dorsal fins with large spines, the second dorsal relatively high, almost as high as first, large eyes, angular extended free tips on the pectoral fins, and a moderately notched caudal fin. It has a maximum length of 89 centimetres.
Little is known about the mosaic gulper shark.