Sparsetooth dogfish

Sparsetooth dogfish
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Somniosidae
Genus:	Scymnodalatias
Species:	S. oligodon
Binomial name
	Scymnodalatias oligodon; Kukuev & Konovalenko, 1988
	Range of the sparsetooth dogfish (in blue)

The sparsetooth dogfish (Scymnodalatias oligodon) is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, the holotype of which was taken in the subtropical southeast Pacific at a depth of up to 200 m. Its biology is unknown.

References

^ Ebert, D.A.; Concha, F.; Herman, K.; Kyne, P.M. (2020). "Scymnodalatias oligodon". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T44570A124433192. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T44570A124433192.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Scymnodalatias oligodon". FishBase. July 2006 version.

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[iucn_status_18_November_2021-1] Ebert, D.A.; Concha, F.; Herman, K.; Kyne, P.M. (2020). "Scymnodalatias oligodon". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T44570A124433192. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T44570A124433192.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.

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