| Sailfin 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. paradoxus |
| Binomial name | |
| Squalus paradoxus Frade, 1929 |
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| Range of the sailfin roughshark | |
The sailfin roughshark (Oxynotus paradoxus) is a species of dogfish shark in the family Oxynotidae, found in the eastern Atlantic from Scotland to Senegal between latitudes 41°N and 11°N, at depths of between 265 and 720 m. Its length is up to 1.2 m.
Its reproduction is ovoviviparous.