Japanese velvet dogfish

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Japanese velvet dogfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Order: Squaliformes Family: Dalatiidae Genus: Scymnodon Species: S. ichiharai
Binomial name
Scymnodon ichiharai Yano & Tanaka, 1984
Range of the Japanese velvet dogfish (in blue)

The Japanese velvet dogfish, Scymnodon ichiharai, is a harmless deepwater sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, found in the northwest Pacific from Suruga Bay and adjacent waters of Japan at depths of between 500 and 800 m. Reproduction is ovoviviparous.

[edit] References

• "Scymnodon ichiharai". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. July 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.