Pale catshark

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name = Pale catshark
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Carcharhiniformes
familia = Scyliorhinidae
genus = Apristurus
species = "A. sibogae"
binomial = "Apristurus sibogae"
binomial_authority = (Weber, 1913)

The pale catshark, "Apristurus sibogae", is a rare cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, the holotype and only specimen of which was taken from the western central Pacific from the Makassar Strait slope between Borneo and Sulawesi at a depth of 655 m. Its length is 21 cm, although this is a juvenile specimen. The pale catshark is oviparous.

ee also

* List of sharks

References

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