Deepwater catshark

Deepwater catshark
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Carcharhiniformes
Family:	Scyliorhinidae
Genus:	Apristurus
Species:	A. profundorum
Binomial name
Apristurus profundorum (Goode & Bean, 1896)

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The deepwater catshark, Apristurus profundorum, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western Atlantic from Delaware Bay and Suriname, and from the eastern Atlantic from Morocco and northwest Africa.

See also

• List of sharks

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Apristurus profundorum" in FishBase. May 2006 version.