Sherwood dogfish
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| Sherwood 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: | Scymnodalatias |
| Species: | S. sherwoodi |
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| Scymnodalatias sherwoodi (Archey, 1921) |
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| Range of the Sherwood dogfish (in blue) | |
The sherwood dogfish, Scymnodalatias sherwoodi, is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found only around New Zealand. The only specimen studied was about 80 cm long.
The sherwood dogfish is ovoviviparous.
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Scymnodalatias sherwoodi" 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
