Sailfin roughshark

Sailfin roughshark
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Oxynotidae
Genus:	Oxynotus
Species:	O. paradoxus
Binomial name
Squalus paradoxus Frade, 1929
Range of the sailfin roughshark

The sailfin roughshark (Oxynotus paradoxus) is a species of dogfish shark in the family Oxynotidae, found in the eastern Atlantic from Scotland to Senegal between latitudes 41°N and 11°N, at depths of between 265 and 720 m. Its length is up to 1.2 m.

Its reproduction is ovoviviparous.

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Oxynotus paradoxus" in FishBase. July 2006 version.