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Centroscyllium
Sign in to saveCentroscyllium is a genus of big-eyed, deepwater dogfishes with no anal fin, a grey or black-brown body, and dorsal spines, with the second one being much larger than the first. Seven extant species are described.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassElasmobranchii
- OrderSqualiformes
- FamilyEtmopteridae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 29
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Etmopteridae
- Collections
- VIMS, SIO, UF, CAS, USNM, FMNH
- Recorded in
- Atlantic Ocean, Chile, Namibia, Costa Rica, Japan, Canada, Australia, United States
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Centroscyllium is a genus of big-eyed, deepwater dogfishes with no anal fin, a grey or black-brown body, and dorsal spines, with the second one being much larger than the first. Seven extant species are described.
==Species== Centroscyllium excelsum Shirai & Nakaya, 1990 (highfin dogfish) Centroscyllium fabricii J. C. H. Reinhardt, 1825 (black dogfish) Centroscyllium granulatum Günther, 1887 (granular dogfish) Centroscyllium kamoharai T. Abe, 1966 (bareskin dogfish) Centroscyllium nigrum Garman, 1899 (combtooth dogfish) Centroscyllium ornatum Alcock, 1889 (ornate dogfish) Centroscyllium ritteri Jordan & Fowler, 1903 (whitefin dogfish)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Centroscyllium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.