Speckled catshark

Taxobox
name = Speckled catshark
status = DD
trend =


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Carcharhiniformes
familia = Scyliorhinidae
genus = Halaelurus
species = "H. boesemani"
binomial = "Halaelurus boesemani"
binomial_authority = Springer & D'Aubrey, 1972

The speckled catshark, "Halaelurus boesemani", is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found from the Gulf of Aden and off Somalia, also known from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Western Australia, between latitudes 21° N and 26° S, at depths of between 40 and 250 m. Its length is up to 48 cm. The speckled catshark is a little-known but wide-ranging bottom-dwelling shark found on continental and insular shelves. Probably caught with bottom trawls.

Coloration is dark spots, small and very numerous, usually not larger than spiracles, over or between weak saddles or bars.

ee also

* List of sharks

References

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