Birdbeak dogfish

Birdbeak dogfish
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Centrophoridae
Genus:	Deania
Species:	D. calcea
Binomial name
Deania calcea (Lowe, 1839)

Template:Sharksportal The birdbeak dogfish, Deania calcea, is a dogfish shark of the family Deania found in the Pacific Ocean around Honshū, Japan, Southern Australia, New Zealand, and Chile, and in the Atlantic Ocean from Iceland south to the Cape of Good Hope.

The birdbeak dogfish has a very long narrow snout, no anal fin, two long and low dorsal fins with grooved spines, small rectangular pectoral fins, and pitchfork-like denticles. It lives at depths of between 73 and 1,450 m. It is ovoviviparous with up to twelve pups per litter. It eats bony fish and shrimp.

References

• Template:IUCN2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
• "Deania calcea". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 23 January. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
• FAO Species Catalogue Volume 4 Parts 1 and 2 Sharks of the World
• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2005). "Deania calcea" in FishBase. 09 2005 version.