| South China cookiecutter shark | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Dalatiidae |
| Genus: | Isistius |
| Species: | I. labialis |
| Binomial name | |
| Isistius labialis Q. W. Meng, Y. T. Zhu & S. Li, 1985 |
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| Range of the South China cookiecutter shark | |
The South China cookiecutter shark (Isistius labialis) is a species of dogfish shark in the family Dalatiidae, found in the South China Sea at depths down to 520 m (1,700 ft). It is named from its feeding style which often creates perfect "cookie-cutter" shaped plugs in the skin of large marine mammals and large sharks.
Reproduction is aplacental viviparity in the same way as great white sharks.