Roughskin dogfish

Roughskin dogfish
Roughskin dogfish
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Somniosidae
Genus: Centroscymnus
Species: C. owstoni
Binomial name
Centroscymnus owstoni
(Garman, 1906)
Range of the roughskin dogfish (in blue)

The roughskin dogfish, Centroscymnus owstoni, 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 120 cm.

References

  • Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Centroscymnus owstoni" in FishBase. February 2011 version.
  • Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8

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