Longnose velvet dogfish | |
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Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Squaliformes |
Family: | Somniosidae |
Genus: | Centroselachus Garman, 1913 |
Species: | C. crepidater |
Binomial name | |
Centroselachus crepidater (Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864) |
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Range of the longnose velvet dogfish (in blue) |
The longnose velvet dogfish, Centroselachus crepidater, is a sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found circumglobally in southern hemisphere subtropical seas, at depths of between 230 and 1,500 m. It reaches a length of 130 cm.