| Whitesaddled catshark | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Scyliorhinidae |
| Genus: | Scyliorhinus |
| Species: | S. hesperius |
| Binomial name | |
| Scyliorhinus hesperius S. Springer, 1966 |
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| Range of the whitesaddled catshark | |
The whitesaddled catshark, Scyliorhinus hesperius, is a species of catshark, family Scyliorhinidae, found on the upper continental slope of the western central Atlantic from Honduras, Panama, and Colombia between latitudes 22° N and 9° N, at depths of between 275 and 460 m. Its length is up to 47 cm.
Reproduction is oviparous.