Highfin dogfish

Highfin dogfish
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Superorder:	Selachimorpha
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Etmopteridae
Genus:	Centroscyllium
Species:	C. excelsum
Binomial name
	Centroscyllium excelsum; Shirai & Nakaya, 1990
	Range of highfin dogfish (in blue)

The highfin dogfish (Centroscyllium excelsum) is a sleeper shark of the family Etmopteridae, found in the northwest Pacific Ocean on the Emperor Seamount chain between latitudes 50 and 38°N, at depths between 800 and 1,000 m. It reaches a length of 63 cm.

The highfin dogfish is ovoviviparous.

References[]

^ Rigby, C.L.; Walls, R.H.L.; Derrick, D.; Dyldin, Y.V.; Herman, K.; Ishihara, H.; Jeong, C.-H.; Semba, Y.; Tanaka, S.; Volvenko, I.V.; Yamaguchi, A. (2021). "Centroscyllium excelsum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T161740A124536451. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T161740A124536451.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Centroscyllium excelsum" in FishBase. May 2006 version.

External links[]

Centroscyllium excelsum at zipcodezoo

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[iucn_status_18_November_2021-1] Rigby, C.L.; Walls, R.H.L.; Derrick, D.; Dyldin, Y.V.; Herman, K.; Ishihara, H.; Jeong, C.-H.; Semba, Y.; Tanaka, S.; Volvenko, I.V.; Yamaguchi, A. (2021). "Centroscyllium excelsum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T161740A124536451. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T161740A124536451.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.

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Highfin dogfish
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Superorder:	Selachimorpha
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Etmopteridae
Genus:	Centroscyllium
Species:	C. excelsum
Binomial name
*Centroscyllium excelsum* Shirai & Nakaya, 1990

Range of highfin dogfish (in blue)