Humpback cat shark

Taxobox
name = Humpback cat shark
status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Carcharhiniformes
familia = Scyliorhinidae
genus = Apristurus
species = "A. gibbosus"
binomial = "Apristurus gibbosus"
binomial_authority = Meng, Chu & Li, 1985

The humpback cat shark, "Apristurus gibbosus", is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae in the order Carcharhiniformes, found in the northwest Pacific Ocean off Zhujiang, South China Sea, from the surface to 915 m. Its length is up to 3.9 m. The humpback cat shark is a little-known oviparous deepwater catshark.

ee also

* List of sharks

References

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