Roughskin dogfish
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The roughskin dogfish (Centroscymnus owstonii) is a sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found around the world on continental shelves in tropical, subtropical and temperate seas, at depths of between 100 and 1,500 m.[2][3] It reaches a length of 121 cm.[2]
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Roughskin dogfish | |
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Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Squaliformes |
Family: | Somniosidae |
Genus: | Centroscymnus |
Species: | C. owstonii |
Binomial name | |
Centroscymnus owstonii (Garman, 1906) | |
Range of the roughskin dogfish (in blue) | |
Synonyms | |
Centroscymnus cryptacanthus Regan, 1906 |
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This species is distributed in deep-sea communities throughout the western and eastern Indian Ocean[4] as well as in the south-central Atlantic Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean (Tasmania).[5]