Japanese velvet dogfish

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name = Japanese velvet dogfish
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Squaliformes
familia = Dalatiidae
genus = "Scymnodon"
species = "S. ichiharai"
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range_map_caption = Range of the Japanese velvet dogfish (in blue)
binomial = "Scymnodon ichiharai"
binomial_authority = Yano & Tanaka, 1984The Japanese velvet dogfish, "Scymnodon ichiharai", is a harmless deepwater sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, found in the northwest Pacific from Suruga Bay and adjacent waters of Japan at depths of between 500 and 800 m. Reproduction is ovoviviparous.

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