Highfin dogfish
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.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Etmopteridae |
| Genus: | Centroscyllium |
| Species: | C. excelsum |
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| Centroscyllium excelsum | |
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The highfin dogfish is ovoviviparous.
References
- McCormack, C., Nakaya, K. & Samiengo, B. 2009. Centroscyllium excelsum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T161740A5492923. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T161740A5492923.en. Downloaded on 12 October 2017.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Centroscyllium excelsum" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
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