Milk-eye catshark
| Apristurus nakayai | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Scyliorhinidae |
| Genus: | Apristurus |
| Species: | A. nakayai
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| Binomial name | |
| Apristurus nakayai , 2013
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The milk-eye catshark (Apristurus nakayai) [1] is a species of shark in the family Scyliorhinidae found in Coriolis Bank off western New Caledonia. Its natural habitat is the open seas. The new deep-water catshark, Apristurus nakayai, is described from northern New Caledonian waters.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Milk-eye catshark". Fishbase. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- ^ Iglésias, Samuel Paco (2013). "Apristurus nakayai sp. nov., a new species of deepwater catshark (Chondrichthyes: Pentanchidae) from New Caledonia". Cybium. 36 (4): 511–519.
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- Apristurus
- Fish of New Caledonia
- Endemic fauna of New Caledonia
- Taxa named by Samuel Paco Iglésias
- Fish described in 2013
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