Ornate dogfish

Ornate dogfish
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Dalatiidae
Genus:	Centroscyllium
Species:	C. ornatum
Binomial name
Centroscyllium ornatum (Alcock, 1889)
Range of ornate dogfish (in blue)

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The ornate dogfish, Centroscyllium ornatum, is dogfish shark which is not widely known. It is found in deepwater on the continental slopes of the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, at depths of between 520 and 1,260 m. Its length is up to 30 cm, and its reproduction is ovoviviparous.

References

1. ^ "Centroscyllium ornatum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/161578. Retrieved February 6, 2010. 

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Centroscyllium ornatum" in FishBase. 06 2006 version.