Highfin dogfish

The highfin dogfish (Centroscyllium excelsum) is a sleeper shark of the family Etmopteridae, found in the northwest Pacific Ocean on the Emperor Seamount chain between latitudes 50 and 38°N, at depths between 800 and 1,000 m. It reaches a length of 63 cm.

Highfin dogfish
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Division:	Selachii
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Etmopteridae
Genus:	Centroscyllium
Species:	C. excelsum
Binomial name
Centroscyllium excelsum Shirai & Nakaya, 1990
Range of highfin dogfish (in blue)

The highfin dogfish is ovoviviparous.