Scymnodon

Taxobox
name = "Scymnodon"
fossil_range = Late Oligocene to Present [cite journal
last = Sepkoski
first = Jack
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)
journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology
volume = 364
issue =
pages = p.560
publisher =
location =
date = 2002
url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=575&rank=class
doi =
id =
accessdate = 2008-01-09 ]

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image_caption = Knifetooth dogfish, "Scymnodon ringens"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Squaliformes
familia = Dalatiidae
genus = "Scymnodon"
genus_authority = Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Scymnodon" is a genus of squaliform sharks in the family Dalatiidae.

pecies

** Japanese velvet dogfish, "Scymnodon ichiharai" (Yano & Tanaka, 1984)
** Smallmouth velvet dogfish, "Scymnodon obscurus" (Vaillant, 1888)
** Knifetooth dogfish, "Scymnodon ringens" (Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864)
** Velvet dogfish, "Scymnodon squamulosus" (Günther, 1877)

References

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