Velvet catshark
Velvet catshark | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
Family: | Scyliorhinidae |
Genus: | Parmaturus |
Species: | P. lanatus
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Binomial name | |
Parmaturus lanatus & Last, 2007
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The velvet catshark (Parmaturus lanatus) is a deepwater catshark. It is known only from a single specimen collected off the Tanimbar Islands in the Arafura Sea, Indonesia, at a 840–855 m depth. The only known specimen, a juvenile male, measured a total of 36 cm in length.
Distribution[]
The shark is found in the Western Pacific. It has a depth range of depth range 840 – 855 m, making it bathydemersal.[2]
References[]
- ^ Dulvy, N.K., Bineesh, K.K., Cheok, J., Dharmadi & Sherman, C.S. 2020. Parmaturus lanatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020. Parmaturus lanatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161450A124487481. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/161450/124487481. Downloaded on 19 January 2021.
- ^ "Parmaturus lamatus, Velvet catshark". FishBase. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Parmaturus
- Fish of Indonesia
- Fish described in 2007
- Shark stubs