Longnose velvet dogfish

The longnose velvet dogfish (Centroselachus crepidater) is a sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found circumglobally in southern hemisphere subtropical seas, at depths of between 230 and 1,500 m.^[2][3] It reaches a length of 130 cm.^[3] It has a diet consisting of predominantly mesopelagic fishes and squids.^[4]

Longnose velvet dogfish
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Division:	Selachii
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Somniosidae
Genus:	Centroselachus Garman, 1913
Species:	C. crepidater
Binomial name
Centroselachus crepidater (Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864)
Range of the longnose velvet dogfish (in blue)

Conservation status

The New Zealand Department of Conservation has classified the longnose velvet dogfish as "Not Threatened" with the qualifier "Secure Overseas" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.^[5]