Highfin dogfish
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| Highfin dogfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Dalatiidae |
| Genus: | Centroscyllium |
| Species: | C. excelsum |
| Binomial name | |
| Centroscyllium excelsum Shirai & Nakaya, 1990 |
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| Range of highfin dogfish (in blue) | |
The highfin dogfish, Centroscyllium excelsum, is a sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, found in the northwest Pacific Ocean on the Emperor Seamount chain between latitudes 50°N to 38°N, at depths of between 800 and 1,000 m. It reaches a length of 63 cm.
The highfin dogfish is ovoviviparous.
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Centroscyllium excelsum" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
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