- Rasptooth dogfish
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Rasptooth dogfish Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Order: Squaliformes Family: Etmopteridae Genus: Miroscyllium
Shirai & Nakaya, 1990Species: M. sheikoi Binomial name Miroscyllium sheikoi
(Dolganov, 1986)Range of the rasptooth dogfish (in blue) The rasptooth dogfish, Miroscyllium sheikoi, is a dogfish, the only species in the genus Miroscyllium, found on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge in the northwest Pacific Ocean at depths of 360 m. Its maximum length is unknown.
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Miroscyllium sheikoi" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
External links
Categories:- IUCN Red List data deficient species
- Etmopteridae
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