Azores dogfish
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| Azores dogfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Scymnodalatias |
| Species: | S. garricki |
| Binomial name | |
| Scymnodalatias garricki Kukuyev & Konovalenko, 1988 |
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| Range of the Azores dogfish (in blue) | |
The Azores dogfish, Scymnodalatias garricki, is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae. It is known only from the holotype caught north of the Azores.
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Scymnodalatias garricki" in FishBase. February 2011 version.
