Milk-eye catshark

The milk-eye catshark (Apristurus nakayai) [1] is a species of shark in the family Scyliorhinidae found in Coriolis Bank off western New Caledonia. Its natural habitat is the open seas. The new deep-water catshark, Apristurus nakayai, is described from northern New Caledonian waters.[2]

Apristurus nakayai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Scyliorhinidae
Genus: Apristurus
Species:
A. nakayai
Binomial name
Apristurus nakayai
Iglésias, 2013

References

  1. "Milk-eye catshark". Fishbase. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  2. Iglésias, Samuel Paco (2013). "Apristurus nakayai sp. nov., a new species of deepwater catshark (Chondrichthyes: Pentanchidae) from New Caledonia". Cybium. 36 (4): 511–519.


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