Flathead catshark

Taxobox
name = Flathead catshark
status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend =


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Carcharhiniformes
familia = Scyliorhinidae
genus = Apristurus
species = "A. macrorhynchus"
binomial = "Apristurus macrorhynchus"
binomial_authority = (Tanaka, 1909)The flathead catshark, "Apristurus macrorhynchus", is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae in the order Carcharhiniformes, found in deep water in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its length is up to 66 cm. The flathead catshark is a little-known deepwater bottom shark. It is dark coloured with a long flattened snout with prominent nostrils and unusual gill slits that leave the tips of the gill filaments exposed.

The flathead catshark is oviparous with one egg per oviduct.

ee also

* List of sharks

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