White ghost catshark
Appearance
White ghost catshark | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
Family: | Scyliorhinidae |
Genus: | Apristurus |
Species: | A. aphyodes
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Binomial name | |
Apristurus aphyodes | |
Distribution (in blue; click to enlarge) |
The white ghost catshark (Apristurus aphyodes) is a shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in deep water in the northeast Atlantic between latitudes 57°N and 58°N. A deep-water catshark known from the eastern North Atlantic from depths of 1,014 to 1,800 m, it is known from only a limited number of specimens. It reaches a maximum of 54 cm total length, but little known of its biology.
References
- ^ Walls, R. 2015. Apristurus aphyodes. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T44207A48925828. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-1.RLTS.T44207A48925828.en. Downloaded on 11 September 2017.
External links
- Media related to Apristurus aphyodes at Wikimedia Commons
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Apristurus aphyodes" in FishBase. July 2006 version.