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Owston's Dogfish

Centroscymnus owstonii Garman, 1906

VU Vulnerable

Names

EnglishOwston's Dogfish
DutchRuwe ijshaai
SpanishSapata lija
Chinese欧氏荆鲨
Scientific nameCentroscymnus owstonii Garman, 1906

About this species

The roughskin dogfish (Centroscymnus owstonii) is a sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found around the world on continental shelves in tropical, subtropical and temperate seas, at depths of between 100 and 1,500 m. It reaches a length of 121 cm.

This species is distributed in deep-sea communities throughout the western and eastern Indian Ocean as well as in the south-central Atlantic Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean (Tasmania).

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassElasmobranchii
OrderSqualiformes
FamilySomniosidae
GenusCentroscymnus

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