Highfin dogfish
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Centroscyllium excelsum Shirai & Nakaya, 1990 |
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Range of highfin dogfish (in blue)
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The highfin dogfish, Centroscyllium excelsum, is a sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, found in the northwest Pacific Ocean on the Emperor Seamount chain between latitudes 50° N to 38° N, at depths of between 800 and 1,000 m. It reaches a length of 63 cm.
The highfin dogfish is ovoviviparous.
[edit] References
- "Centroscyllium excelsum". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.