Knifetooth dogfish
The knifetooth dogfish (Scymnodon ringens), is a harmless sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found in the eastern Atlantic, from Scotland to Spain, Portugal, and Senegal, and the southwest Pacific from New Zealand, between latitudes 58°N and 15°N, at depths of between 200 and 1,600 m. Its length is up to 1.1 m.[2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Scymnodon |
| Species: | S. ringens |
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| Scymnodon ringens Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864 | |
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References
- Blasdale, T. & Valenti, S.V. 2009. Scymnodon ringens. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T161717A5487631. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T161717A5487631.en. Downloaded on 19 October 2017.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Scymnodon ringens" in FishBase. November 2014 version.
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