Velvet dogfish
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| Velvet dogfish | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Zameus |
| Species: | Z. squamulosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Zameus squamulosus (Günther, 1877) |
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Centrophorus squamulosus Günther, 1877 |
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The velvet dogfish, Zameus squamulosus, is a harmless sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found around the world between latitudes 64°N and 48°S, from the surface to 2,000 m. Its length is up to 84 cm.
Reproduction is ovoviviparous.
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Zameus squamulosus" in FishBase. February 2011 version.
