Milk-eye catshark

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Milk-eye catshark
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Division: Selachii
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Pentanchidae
Genus: Apristurus
Species:
A. nakayai
Binomial name
Apristurus nakayai
Iglésias, 2013

The milk-eye catshark (Apristurus nakayai) is a species of shark in the family Scyliorhinidae found in Coriolis Bank off western New Caledonia. [2] Its natural habitat is the open seas. The new deep-water catshark, Apristurus nakayai, is described from northern New Caledonian waters. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Dulvy, N.K.; Bineesh, K.K.; Cheok, J.; Sherman, C.S.; VanderWright, J. (2020). "Apristurus nakayai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020 e.T117839264A117839266. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T117839264A117839266.en .
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Apristurus nakayai". FishBase .
  3. ↑ Iglésias, Samuel Paco (2013). "Apristurus nakayai sp. nov., a new species of deepwater catshark (Chondrichthyes: Pentanchidae) from New Caledonia". Cybium. 36 (4): 511–519.


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