Sparsetooth dogfish

Sparsetooth dogfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Chondrichthyes
Order:Squaliformes
Family:Somniosidae
Genus:Scymnodalatias
Species: S. oligodon
Binomial name
Scymnodalatias oligodon
Kukuev & Konovalenko, 1988
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. Leandro, L. (SSG South America Regional Workshop, June 2003). 2004. Scymnodalatias oligodon. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T44570A10921046. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T44570A10921046.en. Downloaded on 19 October 2017.


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