Deania

Deania is a genus of long-snouted, deepwater dogfish sharks in the family Centrophoridae.

Deania
Temporal range: 23โ€“0 Ma Early Miocene to present[1]
Longsnout dogfish (Deania quadrispinosa)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Centrophoridae
Genus: Deania
D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1902
Species

See text.

Species
  • Deania calcea R. T. Lowe, 1839 (birdbeak dogfish)
  • Deania hystricosa Garman, 1906 (rough longnose dogfish)
  • Deania profundorum H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1912 (arrowhead dogfish)
  • Deania quadrispinosa McCulloch, 1915 (longsnout dogfish)
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See also
  • List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish

References
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
  • Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Deania in FishBase. February 2011 version.
  • Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8


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