Blackgill catshark

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name = Blackgill catshark
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Carcharhiniformes
familia = Scyliorhinidae
genus = Parmaturus
species = "P. melanobranchus"
binomial = "Parmaturus melanobranchus"
binomial_authority = (Chan, 1966)The blackgill catshark, "Parmaturus melanobranchus", is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found only in the South China Sea, at depths of between 540 and 810 m. The maximum length of the only 3 specimens taken is 85 cm. The blackgill catshark is a poorly known deep-water bottom-dwelling catshark found on mud bottoms of the upper continental slopes.

Coloration is light brown with distal parts and anterior margins of fins, snout, nostrils, and gills blackish brown in young, possibly uniform blackish brown in adults.

Reproduction is oviparous.

ee also

* List of sharks

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