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Whitefin Dogfish
Centroscyllium ritteri
The whitefin dogfish (Centroscyllium ritteri) is a species of deep-sea dogfish shark in the family Etmopteridae. It has only been found in the northwest Pacific Ocean off the southeastern coast of Japan, between the latitudes of 35 and 32°N. It inhabits continental slopes and seamounts at a depth of 320 to 1,100 m (1,050 to 3,610 ft). Reproduction is ovoviviparous. It is of no interest to fisheries and almost nothing is known of its biology. The specific epithet...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 96973.