Sherwood 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: | Scymnodalatias |
Species: | S. sherwoodi |
Binomial name | |
Scymnodalatias sherwoodi (Archey, 1921) |
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Range of the Sherwood dogfish (in blue) |
The sherwood dogfish, Scymnodalatias sherwoodi, is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found only around New Zealand. The only specimen studied was about 80 cm long.
The sherwood dogfish is ovoviviparous.