Longnose velvet dogfish
| Longnose velvet dogfish | |
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| Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Centroselachus Garman, 1913 |
| Species: | C. crepidater |
| Binomial name | |
| Centroselachus crepidater (Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864) | |
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| Range of the longnose velvet dogfish (in blue) | |
The longnose velvet dogfish, Centroselachus crepidater, is a sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found circumglobally in southern hemisphere subtropical seas, at depths of between 230 and 1,500 m. It reaches a length of 130 cm.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Centroselachus crepidater" in FishBase. February 2011 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
- Stevens, J. 2003. Centroselachus crepidater. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 3 August 2007.
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