Sparsetooth dogfish | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Squaliformes |
Family: | Somniosidae |
Genus: | Scymnodalatias |
Species: | S. oligodon
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Binomial name | |
Scymnodalatias oligodon Kukuev & Konovalenko, 1988
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Range of the sparsetooth dogfish (in blue) |
The sparsetooth dogfish (Scymnodalatias oligodon) is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, the holotype of which was taken in the subtropical southeast Pacific at a depth of up to 200 m. Its biology is unknown.