Highfin dogfish

Highfin dogfish
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Etmopteridae
Genus:	Centroscyllium
Species:	C. excelsum
Binomial name
Centroscyllium excelsum Shirai & Nakaya, 1990
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Range of highfin dogfish (in blue)

The highfin dogfish, Centroscyllium excelsum, is a sleeper shark of the family Etmopteridae, found in the northwest Pacific Ocean on the Emperor Seamount chain between latitudes 50 and 38°N, at depths between 800 and 1,000 m. It reaches a length of 63 cm.

The highfin dogfish is ovoviviparous.

References

• Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Centroscyllium excelsum" in FishBase. May 2006 version.

External links

• Centroscyllium excelsum at zipcodezoo