Banded sand catshark

Taxobox
name = Banded sand catshark
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Carcharhiniformes
familia = Scyliorhinidae
genus = "Atelomycterus"
species = "A. fasciatus"
binomial = "Atelomycterus fasciatus"
binomial_authority = Compagno & Stevens, 1993The banded sand catshark, "Atelomycterus fasciatus", is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean endemic to northern Australia between latitudes 10° S and 21° S, at depths of between 27 and 120 m. Its length is up to 45 cm.

The banded sand catshark is a common offshore catshark found on mud, sand, or shelly-sand bottom.

Reproduction is oviparous.

Coloration is black spots and markings with relatively few, small, and scattered, color pattern dominated by greyish saddles and bands on light background. Western Australian specimens lack the white spots and are lighter in color.

ee also

* List of sharks

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