| Caribbean roughshark | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Oxynotidae |
| Genus: | Oxynotus |
| Species: | O. caribbaeus |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxynotus caribbaeus Cervigón, 1961 |
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| Range of the Caribbean roughshark (in blue) | |
The Caribbean roughshark, Oxynotus caribbaeus, is a sleeper shark of the family Oxynotidae, found on the upper continental slopes of the Caribbean Sea, at depths of between 400 and 450 m. It reaches a length of about 50 cm.