Japanese velvet dogfish
The Japanese velvet dogfish (Scymnodon ichiharai) is a harmless deepwater sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found in the northwest Pacific from Suruga Bay and adjacent waters of Japan at depths of between 500 and 800 metres (1,600 and 2,600 ft).[2] Reproduction is ovoviviparous.
| Scymnodon ichiharai | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Scymnodon |
| Species: | S. ichiharai |
| Binomial name | |
| Scymnodon ichiharai Ka. Yano & S. Tanaka (II), 1984 | |
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| Range of the Japanese velvet dogfish | |
| Synonyms | |
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Zameus ichiharai Yano & Tanaka, 1984 | |
References
- McCormack, C. & Tanaka, S. 2009. Scymnodon ichiharai. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine>. Downloaded on 25 August 2013.
- White, W.T., Vaz, D.F.B., Ho, H.-C., Ebert, D.A., Carvalho, M.R.d., Corrigan, S., Rochel, E., Carvalho, M.d., Tanaka, S. & Naylor, G.J.P. (2014): Redescription of Scymnodon ichiharai Yano and Tanaka 1984 (Squaliformes: Somniosidae) from the western North Pacific, with comments on the definition of somniosid genera. Ichthyological Research, 62 (2): 213-229.
Taxon identifiers | |
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| Zameus ichiharai | |
| Scymnodon ichiharai | |
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