Azores dogfish
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| Scymnodalatias garricki Kukuyev & Konovalenko, 1988 |
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 Range of the Azores dogfish (in blue)
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The Azores dogfish, Scymnodalatias garricki, is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, known only from the holotype taken at a depth of 300 m from one of the seamounts of the North Atlantic Ridge located north of the Azores. The Azores dogfish is ovoviviparous.
[edit] References
- "Scymnodalatias garricki". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. July 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
