Sparsetooth dogfish

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Sparsetooth dogfish
Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Superorder: Selachimorpha
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Somniosidae
Genus: Scymnodalatias
Species:
S. oligodon
Binomial name
Scymnodalatias oligodon
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Scymnodalatias oligodon distmap.png
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[]

  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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