Azores dogfish

Azores dogfish
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Superorder:	Selachimorpha
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Somniosidae
Genus:	Scymnodalatias
Species:	S. garricki
Binomial name
Scymnodalatias garricki & , 1988
Range of the Azores dogfish (in blue)

The Azores dogfish (Scymnodalatias garricki) is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae. It is known only from the holotype caught north of the Azores and another caught in 2001.

The Azores dogfish lives in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean at depths of 300-2000m. Like most sharks, it is ovoviviparous.^[2]

References[]

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Scymnodalatias garricki" in FishBase. February 2011 version.