Deepwater catshark

Deepwater catshark
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Chondrichthyes
Order:Carcharhiniformes
Family:Scyliorhinidae
Genus:Apristurus
Species: A. profundorum
Binomial name
Apristurus profundorum
(Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896)

The deepwater catshark[1] (Apristurus profundorum) is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found in the western Atlantic from Delaware Bay to Suriname, and in the eastern Atlantic from Morocco to northwest Africa.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Huveneers, C. & Duffy, C. 2004. Apristurus profundorum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T44224A10875025. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T44224A10875025.en. Downloaded on 15 September 2017.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Apristurus profundorum" in FishBase. May 2006 version.


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