Rasptooth dogfish
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| Rasptooth dogfish | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Etmopteridae |
| Genus: | Miroscyllium Shirai & Nakaya, 1990 |
| Species: | M. sheikoi |
| Binomial name | |
| Miroscyllium sheikoi (Dolganov, 1986) | |
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| Range of the rasptooth dogfish (in blue) | |
The rasptooth dogfish, Miroscyllium sheikoi, is a dogfish, the only species in the genus Miroscyllium, found on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge in the northwest Pacific Ocean at depths of 360 m. Its maximum length is unknown.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Miroscyllium sheikoi" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
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