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Somniosidae
Roughskin dogfish
Centroscymnus owstonii
Rough skin down to fifteen hundred meters
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- Southeast Asia
- Elongated
- Large
Transcontinental
Marine fish
Africa
Elongated
LargeRoughskin dogfish is known from Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Dogfish Sharks
- Family
- Somniosidae
- Genus
- Centroscymnus
- Maximum length
- 148 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Western Indian Ocean: from off the Seychelles to the Madagascar Ridge and South Africa. Eastern Indian Ocean off Indonesia and southwestern Australia. Southwestern Pacific: off Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Northwestern Pacific: off Japan and from the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain. Southeastern Pacific: west of Chile. Southwestern Atlantic: off French Guiana, Brazil, and Uruguay. Northwestern Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico. Eastern Atlantic: from off the Azores in the North to off South Africa in the south.
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Family
Conservation status
