White-tip catshark

White-tip catshark
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Chondrichthyes
Order:Carcharhiniformes
Family:Scyliorhinidae
Genus:Parmaturus
Species: P. albimarginatus
Binomial name
Parmaturus albimarginatus
Séret & Last, 2007

The white-tip catshark (Parmaturus albimarginatus) is a recently described, deepwater catshark, known only from a single specimen collected from northern New Caledonia, at a depth of 590–732 m. The only known specimen, an adult male, measured a total of 57.7 cm in length.

References

  1. Valenti, S.V. 2009. Parmaturus albimarginatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T161509A5439401. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T161509A5439401.en. Downloaded on 27 September 2017.


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