| Smallmouth knifetooth dogfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Scymnodon |
| Species: | S. obscurus |
| Binomial name | |
| Scymnodon obscurus (Vaillant, 1888) |
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| Range of the smallmouth velvet dogfish (in blue) | |
The smallmouth knifetooth dogfish, Scymnodon obscurus, is a harmless sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found in the central Atlantic between latitudes 65°N and 36°S, from the surface to 1,450 m. Its length is up to 70 cm.
Reproduction is ovoviviparous.